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Listed Buildings in Aston Ward.

That’s interesting, I’ve taken the address No.85 from the present Bass Warehouse, and their picture shows the Pelican...

But as English Heritage say number the Pelican Works is No.45, and was built 1868, this would roughly coincide with Wilkinson’s move from No.15.

The description given in the Historic England Listing does say no.45.
 
For info.....The 1852 Slater's Directory gives Thomas Wilkinson and Co at No.15 Great Hampton St.
 
Yes it is N°45 Great Hampton Street!

This is how my error occured. On the version of Google Street view that I have you get the picture of the Pelican Works and the Bass Warehouse is marked at the corner with Hockley Street. If you just move the view slightly the Bass Warehouse disappears and First Fasion replaces it. Now First Fasion is at No.45.
 
As does the 1867 PO directory, but the 1868 one shows 45-46 and no 15, but by 1872 it is just 45,46
 
(34) 16-18 Princip Street...

Description from Historic England...

“PRINCIP STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 Nos 16, 17 and 18 (premises occupied by Brytek Polishing Company) SP 0787 NW 26/7 II 2. Circa 1840-50 small canalside works of 2 storeys red brick with engineering brick plinth. Four bays. Gutter eaves and low pitch touched slate roof. Revealed glazing bar sashes with cambered header arches, stucco sills; 4 x 4 panes with 3 x 4 panes on office door. The latter is revealed in 2 orders with cambered arch. Segmental arched yard entrance in second bay from left. A modest but unaltered works elevation of early to mid C19 type now a rarity in what remains of the, gun quarter and with its rear facade with loading bay on to the canal.”

There is a thread for Princip Street on the Forum...
 
(36) Railings and Gate Piers to Broadway Comprehensive School, Fronting Road

Description from Historic England...

“WHITEHEAD ROAD 1. 5104 Aston E6 Railings and gate piers to Broadway Comprehensive School, fronting road SP 08 NE 7/93 II 2. Plain spike railings on dwarf walls with ball finialed standards. Gate piers of red brick with rounded corners. Terracotta friezes with scrolls, cornices and sinuously domed caps. The gates themselves have rusticated ironwork base but with Art Nouveau beaten work leaf decoration to dograils rind overthrow.”

A picture from Google Street view shows further deterioration from the one in the Historic England.

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39) Barton’s Arms, High Street

Description from Historic England...

Fórum thread for the Barton’s Arms

Video link posted by RobT on the thread...
 
(41) The Bulls Head Public House, Loveday Street.

Description from Historic England...

“LOVEDAY STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 The Bull's Head Public House SP 0787 NW 26/5 23.2.81 II GV 2. Late C18 or circa 1800 a three storey red brick corner house with modest mid C19 public house front on ground floor. One bay to Loveday Street and three to Price Street with 2 storey 2 bay rear wing. Plain well proportioned Venetian window to first floor with architrave moulded and keystone, renewed glazing bars to central sash. Small second floor window in flush architrave, 2 x 3 panes, shaped stucco head to flat arch with grooved voussoirs and keystone. The return front has 4 x 4 frame sashes to first floor with grooved flat stucco arches and prominent keystones. The centre window on record floor is blind. Modest pilastered public house windows and door to both fronts with panelled risers to windows. Raised doorways on Price Street have floral decoration to capitals of pilasters. The wing has 2 camber headed flush framed first floor windows and the brickwork is of the same build as No 2 Price Street. A well preserved and virtually unique survival with No 44 of a domestic building of this date by the city centre.”
 
(44) Thomas Rickman's Tomb in St George's Garden, Great Hampton Row.

Description from Historic England...

“GREAT HAMPTON ROW 1. 5104 Newtown B19 Thomas Rickman's tomb in St George's Gardens SP 0688 SE 23/3 II 2. Sandstone tabernacle "chancel" tomb with cusped panelling to plinth. The tomb chest contained by arched gabled canopy with eroded late C14 debased cusped arches, ball flower and drips on carved stops, crockets to gable. The largely defaced inscription reads "Thomas Rickman architect FSA who first correctly named the several styles and elucidated the principles of our ecclesiastical architecture. This monument was dedicated by a few of his friends in the cemetery of one of his many churches, which he erected. He died Jan III MDCCCXXXXI, aged LXIV.”

Picture by Lynn from Great Hampton Row thread...
 
(1) 1-4, Hampton Street.

Description from Historic England...

“HAMPTON STREET 1. 5104 Edgbaston B19 Nos 1 to 4 (consec) SP 0687 NE 25/3 II GV 2. Includes Nos 394, 395 and 396 Summer Lane, Newtown. C1880 corner block of shops and works with housing and workshops above. The bowed corner and immediate returns of 4 storeys, the main side ranges of 3 storeys and attics. Built of red brick with stone, cut brick, ceramic bricks and polychrome tile decoration and dressings. The corner has elements of Ruskinian Gothic relating to the terrace on Constitution Hill whilst the side ranges have more usual Birmingham Gothic detailing. The corner shop front is painted white with broad articulating piers, whilst the adjacent shops and works entrances on both fronts have panelled pilasters with elongated acanthus consoles and bracketed cornices. The upper storeys single and coupled jointed windows with leaf carved impost strings. Gables with decorative roundels break the cut brick eaves. The corner has a 3 tiered wood oriel ornately decorated with quatrefoil top lights to casements and panelled superstructure with deep cornice breaking through the eaves. Important corner site.”

Google Street View picture...

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(2) 1-7, Constitution Hill. (HB Sale Building)

Description from Historic England...

“CONSTITUTION HILL 1. 5104 City Centre B19 Nos 1 to 7 (odd) SP 0687 NE 25/5 25.2.81 II 2. 1896 built as works and offices for H B Sale, architects William Doubleday and Shaw. Narrow triangular site with Hampton Street. Four storeys, dark red brick elevations, terracota dressed, with swept shaped gables, the dominating feature of the design is the striking 5 storey circular tower at the apex of the site, faced in red terracotta. The upper floors are corbelled out from the base and are richly ornamented with freely handled decorated forms terminating in a galleried cupola that is of transitional Spanish Romanesque derivation (Salamanca a Zamora). Shafted first floor windows, and bold ogee arches and drips to 2nd floor. Between the second and third floors lush almost Richardsonian floral decoration setting off the initials of H B Gale in large sinuous caps. Medieval heads projecting from roundel plaques in spandrels of first floor window arches. The swept gable side elevations have lively fenestration principally on tripartite theme: segmental arcading containing ground floor windows and doors; group of 2 and 3 light windows with lobed shaped over arches on first floor and round arched galleried windows to upper floors. Parapet heightened between gables on Hampton Street. The building holds a very commanding position in the townscape.”

Picture taken about 10 years ago...
 
(3) 100 and 101, Bath Street

Description from Historic England...
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1075750

“BATH STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 Nos 100 and 101 SP 0787 NW 26/3 II 2. Circa 1840-40, works, on corner with Loveday Street. Two and a half storeys red brick, plain side elevation but given monumental stucco front to Bath Street as if for a chapel. Three bays with centre slightly recessed. Quoin pilasters framing bays through 2 storeys up to deep frieze with string and moulded cornice with blocking course raised as block pediment over recessed centre. Plain iron framed small pane windows, panels between storeys on outer bays. Doorway full width of centre bay and in antis with Tuscan pilasters and plain entablature. Double panelled doors with marginal glazed rectangular fanlight, approached by flight of steps.”

The picture on Historic England is from 1999, but in the present Google Street view it shows the building front much smarter.
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The Forum has a Bath St. Thread...

Pictures from Mike’s post showing old pictures can be seen here...

The map shows Bath St. around 1900 and the preset Street View. It used to run from Snow Hill to Loveday St, but now only a small section is left.
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(41) The Bulls Head Public House, Loveday Street.

Description from Historic England...

“LOVEDAY STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 The Bull's Head Public House SP 0787 NW 26/5 23.2.81 II GV 2. Late C18 or circa 1800 a three storey red brick corner house with modest mid C19 public house front on ground floor. One bay to Loveday Street and three to Price Street with 2 storey 2 bay rear wing. Plain well proportioned Venetian window to first floor with architrave moulded and keystone, renewed glazing bars to central sash. Small second floor window in flush architrave, 2 x 3 panes, shaped stucco head to flat arch with grooved voussoirs and keystone. The return front has 4 x 4 frame sashes to first floor with grooved flat stucco arches and prominent keystones. The centre window on record floor is blind. Modest pilastered public house windows and door to both fronts with panelled risers to windows. Raised doorways on Price Street have floral decoration to capitals of pilasters. The wing has 2 camber headed flush framed first floor windows and the brickwork is of the same build as No 2 Price Street. A well preserved and virtually unique survival with No 44 of a domestic building of this date by the city centre.”
Hi Thank you for this, my 4 x grandfather ran the pub in the 1800's. So please it is still open following Rose the landlady's retirement last year.
 
Pedro's post #53 - During the late 1800's this building was known as Victoria Hall and my great uncle, Joe, boxed there together with champion boxer Charley Norton.
 
Hi Thank you for this, my 4 x grandfather ran the pub in the 1800's. So please it is still open following Rose the landlady's retirement last year.
Looking forward to reopening post pandemic so I can make a trip and follow in my great grandparents' and great great grandparents' footprints to drink in this pub at the top of their road.
 
(41) The Bulls Head Public House, Loveday Street.

Description from Historic England...

“LOVEDAY STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 The Bull's Head Public House SP 0787 NW 26/5 23.2.81 II GV 2. Late C18 or circa 1800 a three storey red brick corner house with modest mid C19 public house front on ground floor. One bay to Loveday Street and three to Price Street with 2 storey 2 bay rear wing. Plain well proportioned Venetian window to first floor with architrave moulded and keystone, renewed glazing bars to central sash. Small second floor window in flush architrave, 2 x 3 panes, shaped stucco head to flat arch with grooved voussoirs and keystone. The return front has 4 x 4 frame sashes to first floor with grooved flat stucco arches and prominent keystones. The centre window on record floor is blind. Modest pilastered public house windows and door to both fronts with panelled risers to windows. Raised doorways on Price Street have floral decoration to capitals of pilasters. The wing has 2 camber headed flush framed first floor windows and the brickwork is of the same build as No 2 Price Street. A well preserved and virtually unique survival with No 44 of a domestic building of this date by the city centre.”
We had a meeting of long lost cousins in The Bull today over a very nice lunch. Still going strong after Rose the landlady's retirement. Owned in the 1800's by my 4 x grandfather Joseph Showell and his family.
 
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