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Ashford and Sons

A Grade II* Listed Building in Aston, Birmingham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4894 / 52°29'21"N

Longitude: -1.9075 / 1°54'26"W

OS Eastings: 406377

OS Northings: 287947

OS Grid: SP063879

Mapcode National: GBR 5Y5.QH

Mapcode Global: VH9YW.WPFH

Plus Code: 9C4WF3QV+Q2

Entry Name: Ashford and Sons

Listing Date: 8 July 1982

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1075540

English Heritage Legacy ID: 217153

Also known as: J. Ashford & Son building

ID on this website: 101075540

Location: Hockley, Birmingham, West Midlands, B18

County: Birmingham

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Birmingham

Traditional County: Warwickshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands

Church of England Parish: Birmingham St George

Church of England Diocese: Birmingham

Tagged with: Architectural structure Arts and Crafts movement

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Description


GREAT HAMPTON STREET
1.
5104
Hockley B18
Nos 16, 17 and 18
(Ashford and Sons)
SP 0687 NW 24/3
II*
2.
Dated 1912. A particularly sensitive formal elevation to a jewellery works,
containing Birmingham Arts and Crafts with Edwardian Baroque details all executed
to a very high standard. Three storeys, high quality red brickwork with some faults
and Portland stone dressings above. Portland stone ground floor. The 4 bay front
has a monumental arched recess enclosing the 2 central bays with large keystone rising
to parapet coping. The flanking bays are set forward from the plane of the arch by
one brick, thin windows vertically framed by sheer brick piers up to the coping and
finished off with shallow gables of stone and brick chequer as are the aprons below
the sills. Windows are stone mullioned and transomed, those to second floor in
centre forming a vast lunette with the arch of the recess. The ground floor stonework
has deep set horizontal grooving struck into concave reveals of window and door arches
with keystones. The left hand archway serves as a wagon entrance, balanced by the
office doorway to right given a more formal emphasis by Tuscan columns set in antis
with entablature carried across on the spring of the arch. The keystone here takes
the form of a large console. The company name and date plaques are set in band below
central first floor windows, in finely carved stonework with Arts and Crafts
detailing.

Listing NGR: SP0636587936

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