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BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND INSTITUTE, Non Civil Parish - 1343095 | Historic England

BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND INSTITUTE

BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND INSTITUTE, MARGARET STREET B3

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1343095
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND INSTITUTE
Statutory Address:: BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND INSTITUTE, MARGARET STREET B3

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1343095
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND INSTITUTE
Statutory Address 1:: BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND INSTITUTE, MARGARET STREET B3

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND INSTITUTE, MARGARET STREET B3

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 06634 87055

Details

MARGARET STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B3 Birmingham Midland Institute (formerly listed as The Birmingham Library) SP 0687 SE 29/27 21.1.70 II* GV 2. 1899, by Cassins, Peacock and Bewlay. Red brick with stone dressings; green stone tiled roof. Two storeys plus basement and attic; 5 bays, the outer once advanced and gabled, that on the right broader and taller than that on the left. Ground floor with a modern entrance with 3-light transomed window above, three 4-light windows with transom and bold voussoirs in the arches and then the entrance up steps within an archway flanked by banded Ionic columns and arched panels. First floor with a 3-light window, six 2-light windows separated from one another by banded Ionic columns standing alternately on the keystone of the window below and a buttresses rising from basement level and a window of Serliam type with banded Ionic pilasters and a sculpted semi-circular panel over the centre light. Below the 6 window a sculpted band of Renaissance-type decoration. All first floor windows with 2 transoms. Richly decorated cornice and parapet behind which the roof in which three 4-light flat-headed dormer windows. All windows with leaded lights. Right-hand return on Cornwall Street of 3 bays and similar to the Margaret Street elevation. Nothing inside.

Listing NGR: SP0663487055

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.