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© Mr Geoff Dowling ARPS
IoE Number:
217391
Location:
ART AND DESIGN ANNEXE, BIRMINGHAM POLYTECHNIC, MARGARET STREET B3
BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS
Photographer:
Mr Geoff Dowling ARPS
Date Photographed:
29 August 1999
Date listed:
21 January 1970
Date of last amendment:
08 July 1982
Grade
I
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In the entry for MARGARET STREET
29/28 Art and Design Annexe
Birmingham Polytechnic
The Grade shall be amended from Grade II to read Grade I.
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MARGARET STREET
1.
5104 City Centre B3
Art and Design Annexe,
Birmingham Polytechnic
(formerly listed as
College of Arts and
Crafts)
SF 0687 SE 29/28 21.1.70
II
2.
1881-85, by Martin and Chamberlain and extended along Cornwall Street in 1893.
Brick and terracotta with stone dressings and some tile decoration and with
mosaic in the central gable; tiled roof with bracketted eaves cornice and
decorative ridge tiles. In a Gothic style. Three and 4 storeys; 5 bays,
the central and outer ones all gabled though differently in width and height,
a facade as brilliantly successful as it is wholly asymmetrical. The centre
bay with the gabled entrance arch flanked by pinnacles and carrying a big
pointed arched opening within the gable above. The door behind gates and
up a steep flight of steps within a room with arches carried on granite columns
and a flat panelled wooden ceiling. Ground floor windows all with shouldered
and moulded heads. First floor windows all broad lancets in various groupings;
then, on the left a roundel by Barlow of Leicester with splended foliage in
an Art Nouveau style, a band of trefoil headed lancets with roundels below
and, on the right, a big canted bay window carried on a tripartite buttress
rising up from basement level and with a triplet of lancets above. Excellent
floral details in the spandrels. Inside, too, with excellent detailing everywhere
including mosaic floors, stained glass windows, fine metalwork and joinery
and carved capitals. The studios on the top floor large and functionally
constructed with big iron arches with quatrefoils. On the return, the 9 bays
of the extension differ from the 5 bays of the original in having figures
(by Benjamin Creswick) rather than foliage in the tympana of the arches.