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On of the important buildings in the Steelhouse Conservation Area on Corporation Street

Murdoch Chambers Pitman Chambers, Birmingham

   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.

   Listing NGR: SP0726987214

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