Description

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10250
29-APR-04

HALL STREET
36-37

GV
II

2 small manufactories and shops. C.1870 with late C20 alterations. Red brick with moulded brick detailing , painted stone dressings and buff and blue brick banding. Central brick stack and slate roof covering.
PLAN: Double elongated L-plan with central shared passage entry to rear courtyard and workshop ranges to east and west.
EXTERIOR: Symmetrical frontage range of 3 storeys, 3 bays, rising from a shallow blue brick with C20 joinery to single ground floor windows to each shop unit. Plain doorways to outer bays, both with blocked rectangular overlights and plain painted lintels. Narrow doorway to passage to centre with drip mould to lintel. Above, double buff brick cill bands and pairs of narrow corner pilasters frame a full-width recessed frontage panel with 3 windows to each storey First floor with shallow arch-headed outer openings, and a narrow, semi-circular arch-headed centre opening, all with painted cills, arch springers and keyblocks. Blue brick band steps above window heads. All openings with sash frames, the outer windows margin glazed. Upper floor windows on double brick cill bands, painted bracketed cills and undivided sash framed, the painted heads set within slightly advanced lintel band with dentilled eaves cornice above.
Rear courtyard with single storey and 3 storey workshop ranges extending from rear elevation of frontage building.
Forms group with nos 32-35 Hall Street.(q.v.)
A pair of small late C19 manufactories with attached ranges of workshops, displaying the distinctive architectural and plan form characteristics of the industrial buildings of this manufacturing district of Birmingham now considered to be of international significance.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670648

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings