ASHLEY AND STRATHCONA BUILDINGS, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY

ASHLEY AND STRATHCONA BUILDINGS, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY, PRITCHATTS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1234299
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: ASHLEY AND STRATHCONA BUILDINGS, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY
Statutory Address:: ASHLEY AND STRATHCONA BUILDINGS, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY, PRITCHATTS ROAD

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Date:: 2001-07-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1234299
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-May-1993
List Entry Name:: ASHLEY AND STRATHCONA BUILDINGS, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY
Statutory Address 1:: ASHLEY AND STRATHCONA BUILDINGS, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY, PRITCHATTS ROAD

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ASHLEY AND STRATHCONA BUILDINGS, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY, PRITCHATTS ROAD

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 04969 83739

Details

In the entry for BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY ROAD SF 08 SW Ashley & Strathcona 11/10035 Buildings, Birmingham University II GV Delete 'University Road' in the above entries and insert 'Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston'-

------------------------------------------ BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY ROAD SP 08 SW 11/10035 Ashley & Strathcona Buildings, Birmingham University GV II Linked university faculty buildings. 1961-64. Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis. Reinforced concrete frame to taller block, with pre-cast concrete and concrete blocks; flat roof. Tower block of concrete blocks with low pitched lead-covered roof. Low, slightly curved two-storey lecture room block, and linked to this a five-storey block containing tutors' offices, which is of spiral form and encloses a central covered, top- lit atrium with a staircase winding upwards around its outer perimeter. Low block with vertical strip windows and panels of wall between, which rise upwards to form a broken parapet. Taller block has an individual, 2-light window to each room, each with canted sides, forming an oriel. Expressed beam-ends at ceiling level between rooms.

Sherban Cantacuzino, Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis.

Listing NGR: SP0496983739

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Legacy System number:: 410173
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Cantacuzino, S, Howell Killick Partridge and Amis, (1981)

Legal

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