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© Mr Geoff Dowling ARPS
IoE Number:
217010
Location:
MURDOCH CHAMBERS, 153 CORPORATION STREET B3 (west side)
BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS
Photographer:
Mr Geoff Dowling ARPS
Date Photographed:
22 August 1999
Date listed:
21 January 1970
Date of last amendment:
21 January 1970
Grade
II*
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CORPORATION STREET
1.
5104 (west side)
City Centre B3
No 153
(Murdoch Chambers)
Nos 155 to 161 (odd)
(Pitman Chambers)
SP 0787 SW 30/1 21.1.70
II* GV
2.
1896-7, by J Crouch and E Butler, partly for A R Dean, manufacturer of much of the
furniture for Crouch and Butler's houses and partly for a vegetarian restaurant.
Purple bricks and buff terracotta; tile roof. In an Arts and Crafts style. Four
storeys plus 2 storeys of attics; 5 bays in the rhythm 1:2:1:1, the first with a
polygonal domed attic room on the skyline, the 2nd and 3rd beneath a broad gable
with pedicule surmounted by 3 figures and the fifth with a smaller gabled flanked
by little squat attic turrets. Ground floor with arched entrances left and right
of modern shop fronts. First floor with 3 triplets of windows with a band of
excellently carved lively reliefs by Benjamin Creswick below and within broad
arches with big voussoir stones; left and right, a 2-light window and a pedimented
3-light window. Second floor with a canted bay window rising into the storey above
2 segmentally-pedimented 3-light windows, a broad canted bay window and 3 arched
windows. Third floor with sash windows and a 3-light transomed window all beneath
a richly decorated eaves cornice. In the big gable 4 arched windows beneath a
continuous pedimented head, in the small gable a shallow bow window. In the roof
between the gables 2 tiers of 4-light flat-headed attic windows.