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Latitude: 52.4877 / 52°29'15"N
Longitude: -1.9128 / 1°54'46"W
OS Eastings: 406014
OS Northings: 287757
OS Grid: SP060877
Mapcode National: GBR 5X6.J3
Mapcode Global: VH9YW.SQMS
Plus Code: 9C4WF3QP+3V
Entry Name: 7-8, Vyse Street
Listing Date: 29 April 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1392820
English Heritage Legacy ID: 505861
ID on this website: 101392820
Location: Brookfields, Birmingham, West Midlands, B18
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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BIRMINGHAM
997/0/10305 VYSE STREET
29-APR-04 7-8
GV II
Offices, formerly small manufactories. Mid-C19 with minor late C20 alterations.
Red brick with painted stone dressings, brick chimney to centre of front roof slope. Roof, hipped at west end with slate covering.
PLAN: Double-pile plan with central doorway to former shared central passage.
EXTERIOR: Symmetrical 2 storey, 5 bay front with main entrance to each part in outer bays. Semi-circular rubbed brick arched heads to doorways, the left-hand entrance set back within a panelled reveal. 6-panel doors within moulded architraves below semi-circular fanlights. Above each door, a sash window on a narrow painted cill band, each with a shallow bracketed cornice Centre bay with lower, narrower semi-circular arched doorway with overlight and a 6-panel door. Flanking the doorway are full height canted bay windows, each with a dentilled cornice to each storey, the upper floor windows with panelled aprons. The bays have sash windows without glazing bars.
Listed for group value with No.9 Vyse Street (q.v.).
A range of former small mid- C19 manufactories, part of an exceptionally well-preserved sequence along this street on a domestic scale and form characteristic of this specialist manufacturing district of Birmingham now considered to be of international significance.
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