55 Colmore Row lit up from Cathedral Square

Saw a green light up on 55 Colmore Row, then it went turquoise or sky blue. This view after dark from Cathedral Square in Birmingham.

Grade II listed building

55 Colmore Row

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SP 0687 SE 29/6

City Centre COLMORE ROW No. 55

(Formerly listed as COLMORE ROW B3 No 55 (Barclays Bank International Limited)

21.1.70

GV II

Late C19 stone; patterned slate pavilion roof. Four storeys plus basement and two tiers of attics; four bays plus the curved return into Church Street. Ground floor with banded rustication and an open pedimented porch on granite columns and three arched windows. First and second floors with banded rustication and articulated by stone pilasters and granite columns. First floor windows with pediments. Second floor windows arched and with segmental pediments. Third floor windows arched and with balustrading at their feet. Eaves balustrade with three arched attic windows. In the roof, two small dormer windows.

The long return on Church Street plainer.

Listing NGR: SP0691087081

63, 65 and 67 Colmore Row

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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

71 and 73 Colmore Row

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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

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