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Latitude: 52.4973 / 52°29'50"N
Longitude: -1.9481 / 1°56'53"W
OS Eastings: 403620
OS Northings: 288826
OS Grid: SP036888
Mapcode National: GBR 5N2.QN
Mapcode Global: VH9YW.5HZD
Plus Code: 9C4WF3W2+WQ
Entry Name: Office Row, West of East Gate at Soho Foundry
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1216064
English Heritage Legacy ID: 219287
ID on this website: 101216064
Location: Black Patch, Sandwell, West Midlands, B66
County: Sandwell
Electoral Ward/Division: Soho and Victoria
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Smethwick
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Smethwick The Resurrection
Church of England Diocese: Birmingham
Tagged with: Office building
SANDWELL MB FOUNDRY LANE (off)
SP 08 NW
Smethwick
9/77 Office Row, west of
30.3.87 east gate at
Soho Foundry
GV II
Row of seven houses, now offices. Early to mid-C19. Buff-coloured brick
with slate roof. Two storeys. All openings have segmental heads. At the
left is a taller block of three bays under a hipped roof. The paired door-
ways are in the central bay. The other five former houses are each of two
bays. The right hand bay of each has a blind recess on the first floor and
a doorway below. The doorway of the right hand house is now blocked. Chimneys
to each side of taller block, and to right of third and fourth houses. Soho
Foundry is on the site of the foundry established in 1796 by Boulton, Watt
and Sons for the manufacture of steam engine parts. These houses stood out-
side the gates of the original foundry. The left hand house is said to have
been occupied for a few years by William Murdock (1754 - 1839), the company's
chief engine erector and a pioneer of gas lighting. (Gale, W K V, Soho Foundry,
1946).
Listing NGR: SP0361988826
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