City Arcade is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Commercial arcade. 6 related planning applications.
City Arcade
- WRENN ID
- stranded-joist-ivory
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Commercial arcade
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP 0786 NW 34/7 5104
UNION STREET City Centre B4 City Arcade
(Formerly listed under HIGH STREET)
II*
1898-1901, by T.W.F Newton and Cheattle, the decorative terracotta and green faience by Doulton and Co and other detailing by W J Neatby. The gabled facade to Union Street is of 3 storeys plus attic and set diagonally to the arcade with a big central arch flanked by polygonal turrets terminating in little cupolas with windows and scrolly buttresses. To the left, another single bay. Ground floor with modern shop fronts. Fenestration by mullioned and transomed windows, those of the first floor with 2 transoms, those of the second floor with one. Above the arch a row of 5 small windows, a splendid band of sculpture including caryatid figures and a 3-lFlight window in the gable. The arcade itself with, between lengths of coffered ceiling at either end, the now all modern shop fronts, 7 a side, beneath excellent scrolly green faience balustrade with intermittent cupolas. The facade to Union Passage is ulilitarian.
Listing NGR: SP0713786877
Detailed Attributes
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