14 And 15, Frederick Street B1

FREDERICK STREET 1. 5104 Hockley B1 Nos 14 and 15 SP 0687 SE 29/6 II 2. C186O-70 jewellry quarter works and offices parenting a tall 2 storey stuccoed elevation to the street with Italianate decorative details. Originally probably included residential accommodation. The 4 bay front has a moulded capped plinth, moulded first floor sill course, stepped frieze and dentils to prominent eaves cornice. Doorways to outer bays with windows to centre on ground floor. Each window of 2 round headed lights with slender shafts, blind panels above each light with roundel and wreath ornament, bearded head keystones to lintels; panelled aprons down to plinth. The doorways have pilaster strips with large console brackets supporting dentil cornices, same keystones as windows. First floor windows have similar details with cambered arches, linking string at impost level. The right hand windows have been thrown into one. The bearded head keystones break into frieze and are flanked by decorated consoles rising up to eaves cornice. A lively elevation marking the workshop rear ranges.

Listing NGR: SP0612087471