44, Broad Street B1

BROAD STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B1 No 44 [formerly listed as No 44 (The Brass House)] SP 0686 NW 32/4 29.3.78 II 2. Built as the Birmingham Brasshouse in 1781 and altered circa 1870. Brick with stucco dressings; slate roof. Two storeys; 7 bays, the centre 5 advanced slightly and with a parapet with volutes left and right and intermittent balustrading. Ground floor with a central door within a stone surround with arched recess of Romanesque type and flanked by granite columns and, either side, a central tipartite window with slender piers and columns carrying an entablature and 2 windows with voussoir blocks. First floor similar except that the central window is of Serlian type and the extreme left-hand window has been heightened. All the windows with glazing bars and standing on a continuous sill band.

Listing NGR: SP0611786656