The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building

The following building shall be added to the list;

BIRMINGHAM EDMUND STREET SP 0687 SE Numbers 106-110, The Scottish Mutual Assurance Society Building 29/10012 (including number, 29 Newhall Street) II GV Office building. Dated 1895; altered C20. By Frank Barlow Osbourne for W H Smythe, Solictors. Red brick with ashlar sandstone dressings; blue tile roof. 4 storeys with cellars; 4:1:4 bays wrapped around corner of Newhall Street and Edmund Street; asymmetrical. In simplified Flemish Revival style. Altered ground floor with corner entrance and separate entrances to 29 Newhall Street and 110 Edmund Street. Across each upper floor is a continuous balcony with wrought-iron balustrade set on the corbelled ashlar cornice of the floor below. Moulded sill bands; cross windows with chamfered ashlar dressings in brick surrounds. Newhall Street front: bay 3 projects and has a canted bay window on first and second floors, the side-lights with transoms only; projection narrows on the third floor its window flanked by C-scrolls and by brick pilasters which rise through a string course and 2 cornices to a shaped gable with kneelers, copings and ball finial; above the window is a decorative ashlar panel. The flanking bays are recessed but otherwise treated in similar manner whilst bay 1 is narrower projection with cross window to each floor and simpler gable. Main ridge has broad, corniced transverse stack and matching coaxial stack. Corner bay has rounded turret with curved cross-window to each floor and 4-light mullioned opening to void beneath octagonal ogee dome set on a corbel table. Edmund Street front: generally treated as Newhall Street front but with broad gable on left which projects and has cross-windows to each floor flanked by brick pilasters and by transomed single-light windows. Beneath first floor window is a carved ashlar panel with monogram and date '1895'; cornice above third floor surmounted by small ashlar pediment; 2-light window within the gable. Transverse ridge stacks as before. Important city centre location. Noteworthy roofscape.

Listing NGR: SP0674487088