54, 56 AND 58, VITTORIA STREET B1

VITTORIA STREET (west side) Hockley B1 Nos 54, 56 and 58

1. 5104 SP 0687 NW 24/27

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2. Corner site with Regent Street. Jewellery quarter works built in 1905; architects Essex Nicol and Goodman. A 3 storey building of machined finely pointed red brick with terracotta dressings, broadly curved round corner into Regent Street. Seven bays to Vittoria Street, the seventh beginning the curve followed by 4 broader bays round into Regent street. Plain brick piers rise from the first floor moulded terracotta sill course to the bracketed terracotta eaves cornice. Low slate roof curved with corner. Terracotta cornices to chimneys. The broad ground floor windows form an elliptical arched arcade and have weathered moulded terracotta sills. The windows to upper floors take up virtually the full width of the bays, with segmental arches and keystones on first floor and flat terracotta arches full width on top floor functioning as frieze between the piers. Transomed plate glass glazing, curved in corner windows. Three doorways to Vittoria street with terracotta cornices and sections of entablature supporting segmental pediments, all of terracotta. Important corner site.

Listing NGR: SP0613787541