Description

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10369 CAROLINE STREET
29-APR-04 61

GV II
Former manufactory, empty and undergoing refurbishment at the time of inspection
( September 2000 ) Late C19, with alterations C20 alterations, refurbished 2000-1. Red brick with painted ashlar dressings and blue brick detailing. Single gable stack shared with adjacent property, and slate roof covering.
PLAN: Elongated L-plan formed by frontage range and attached workshop range extending westwards to rear of street frontage range..
EXTERIOR: Street frontage range of 2 storeys with attic, rising from a shallow blue brick plinth. 4 bays with doorway to left with moulded surround and pointed segmental arch- headed lintel with hood mould above shallow arched overlight, now blocked. To the right -hand side, a drop arch-headed lintel above cusped overlight to doorway giving access to covered passage. Between the doorways, 2, 2 over 2 pane sash windows with painted sills. 4 narrow first floor windows with cills set on painted band course, one with a 2 over 2 pane sash window with a semi-circular headed upper sash, the remaining openings covered. Painted impost band with blue brick margins supports dentilled and dog- toothed eaves and 4 tall gabled dormers with C21 2 over 2 pane sash windows. Former workshop range to rear rebuilt in altered form.
INTERIOR. Altered during most recent refurbishment, but retaining stick baluster stair to rear of entrance hall.
Forms a group with No.60 Caroline Street q.v.) and Nos. 58-59 Caroline Street (q.v.)
A former late C19 purpose- built manufactory, built as part of a pair with, and sharing the same architectural detail as No. 60 Caroline Street (q.v.) of a form and appearance characteristic of late C19 manufacturing premises in a specialist industrial quarter of Birmingham now recognised as being of international significance .

Reasons for Listing

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670632

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)