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Latitude: 52.4852 / 52°29'6"N
Longitude: -1.9122 / 1°54'43"W
OS Eastings: 406057
OS Northings: 287477
OS Grid: SP060874
Mapcode National: GBR 5X7.N0
Mapcode Global: VH9YW.SSYQ
Plus Code: 9C4WF3PQ+34
Entry Name: 50, Albion Street
Listing Date: 29 April 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1391247
English Heritage Legacy ID: 494046
ID on this website: 101391247
Location: Brookfields, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1
County: Birmingham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birmingham
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Birmingham St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Birmingham
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997/0/10280 ALBION STREET
29-APR-04 50
II
Manufactory. c.1870 with minor late C20 alterations. Red brick with blue brick and moulded brick detailing and painted dressings. Welsh slate roof with gable stack to west end.
PLAN: Linear street frontage range with narrow rear passage, workshops to upper floor and offices and entrances below.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey, 4 bay range rising from a shallow blue brick plinth. Entrance to left set within tall Gothic arched outer opening, the doorway within a segmental arch-headed opening, with double 4-panel doors and an overlight with plain wooden tracery. Window openings, one to left and 2 to right with segmental outer arches and shouldered heads, linked by a stepped blue brick band. Glazing bar sash frames, with 6-pane upper sashes and horizontally-subdivided 2 -pane lower sashes. Wide painted storey band below 7 closely-spaced upper floor windows with multi-pane metal frames and 1 replacement casement. Segmental arched heads have painted springers and impost mouldings, and above, elaborate cut and moulded brick cornice. Rear elevation with 7 upper floor workshop windows with multi-pane frames.
Forms a group with No. 49 Albion Street (q.v.) and No.51 Albion Street (q.v.)
A little-altered small metal-working manufactory of c.1870, which forms part of a prominent street frontage of industrial premises. It is carefully detailed externally and displays the distinctive features characteristic of purpose-built manufactories in a specialist manufacturing district of Birmingham, now recognised as being of international significance.
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