Snow on Colmore Row - 55 Colmore Row - this was a Barclays Bank

Snow on Colmore Row. Was much less busy than usual. Maybe due to the snow or maybe as it was a Saturday?

Also lots of restrictions with public transport.

55 Colmore Row - this was a Barclays Bank a long time ago.
Corner of Church Street.

Grade II listed building

71 and 73, Colmore Row B3, Birmingham

COLMORE ROW
1.
5104
City Centre B3
Nos 71 and 73
SP 0687 SE 29/8 21.1.70
II GV
2.
Late C19. Stone. Four storeys; 6 bays. Ground floor with iron columns of
Corinthian type and with 2 shaft rings marking off the bays in the rhythm 2:2:2 and
coupled at the outside. They carry delicately dentillled cornice. First floor with
arched windows between Tuscan columns and piers at the outside carrying an
entablature with triglyph frieze. Second floor with windows within moulded surrounds
between unfluted Corinthian columns and piers at the outside carrying an
entablature with delicately dentilled cornice. At 3rd floor level, a couplet of
small arched windows divided by granite columns to each bay. Dentilled eaves
cornice and blocking course.

Listing NGR: SP0685987066

61 and 67, Colmore Row B3 Birmingham

COLMORE ROW
1.
5104 City Centre B3
21.1.70 Nos 61 and 67 (odd)
- and Nos 63 and 65 (odd)
SP 0687 SE 29/7
II GV
2.
Circa 1870 and at least in part by H R Yeoville Thomason. Stone, large building
of 3 builds. The centrepiece 3 storeys plus basement and attic; 6 bays, the centre
4 advanced and demarcated by giant Corinthian pilasters through first and second
floors. Ground floor with banded rustication, 4 windows and the etched entrances
left and right set in shallow porches carrying balconies to the lst floor window.
First floor with 6 windows, plain in the outer bays but with moulded heads in the
inner bays. Second floor window similar, though those of the outer bays are here
seen to be within a shallow eared recess that embraces also the first floor windows.
In the frieze, 6 small oval attic window. Boldly bracketted cornice to the centre
4 bays and attic pediment above. Left and right of this centrepiece 2 similar wings,
as it were, each, 4-storeyed plus basement and 5 bays wide. In both, the ground floor
has banded rustication and arched windows; the first floor has a central window with
segmental pediment; the second floor has segment-headed windows; the third floor has
windows in eared moulded surrounds and a bracketted eaves cornice. Behind the
centrepiece, a fine banking hall 9 bays long in the rhythm 2: 5:2 by 5 bays wide. Tall
arched bays with Corinthianesque pilasters and 4 Corinthianesque columns carried on
corbels; entablature and coved ceiling with coffers and central shallow dome.

Listing NGR: SP0688787062

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Birmingham City (show map)

Taken on: March 3, 2018

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