Description

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10355
29-APR-04

TENBY STREET NORTH
62

GV
II

Manufactory. Late C19 with late C20 alterations. Red brick with blue brick detailing, painted stone dressings, end brick stacks and a composition slate roof covering.
PLAN: L-plan with narrow street frontage range and storeyed workshop range to the rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storey, 3 bay front with centre doorway beneath a steep pointed- arched head, with correspondingly-shaped overlight above a 4-panel door. The arch has painted springers and keyblock and elaborate brick banding with cut brick and blue brick margins. Dog-tooth impost band within blue brick margins. To the right, a sash window with painted cill above a dog-tooth panel. To the left, a wide cambered arch to a vehicle entrance with C20 railed double gates. First floor cill band above dog-tooth string, and 3 arch-headed sashes with linked hoodmoulds. Smaller upper floor sashes with plain curved dripmoulds and advanced keystones. Moulded brick corbelled eaves above eaves string course. 2- storeyed attached workshop range at an acute angle to the frontage, with arched heads, blue brick cills and banding above window heads. Side passage leads to narrow courtyard with workshops on its north side.
Forms a group with Nos. 62-64 Warstone Lane (q.v.) and Nos. 60-61 Tenby Street North (q.v.)
A distinctively-detailed small late C19 manufactory forming part of a wholly industrial street frontage, displaying architectural and plan form characteristics associated with specialist building types in an industrial quarter of Birmingham now recognised as being of international significance.

Reasons for Listing

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26671956

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014