Statutorily listed buildings
The following information is taken from the English Heritage
website by way of explanation:
We select listed buildings with great care. The main criteria
used are:
1. architectural interest: all buildings which are nationally
important for the interest of their architectural design, decoration
and craftsmanship; also important examples of particular building
types and techniques, and significant plan forms
historic interest: this includes buildings which illustrate important
aspects of the nation's social, economic, cultural or military
history
2. close historical association with nationally important buildings
or events
3. group value, especially where buildings comprise an important
architectural or historic unity or are a fine example of planning
(such as squares, terraces and model villages)
The older and rarer a building is, the more likely it is to be
listed. All buildings built before 1700 which survive in anything
like their original condition are listed, as are most built between
1700 and 1840. After that date, the criteria become tighter with
time, because of the increased number of buildings erected and
the much larger numbers which have survived, so that post-1945
buildings have to be exceptionally important to be listed. Buildings
less than 30 years old are only rarely listed, if they are of
outstanding quality and under threat.
Why are there three grades?
Listed buildings are graded to show their relative importance:
Grade I buildings are those of exceptional interest
Grade II* are particularly important buildings of more than special
interest
Grade II are of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve
them
Descriptions have mostly been provided by the Conservation Unit of the City
Council: for this we thank them.
Cottages at 89-93 Arden Road (Grade II)
Numbers 89 (Ivy Cottage) and 91 (The Cottage)
Late 18th century in appearance but probably 17th century in
origin. Timber framed; brick; tile roof. Two storeys; 3 bays each. Ground floor
with a square casement window, a broad tripartite casement, 2 studded doors with
strap hinges, a square casement and another broad tripartite casement. All
windows with segmental heads. First floor with 3 square and one broad tripartite
casement windows. Brick dentil frieze. Left and right of the pair, single-storey
additions, each with a single casement window and secondary door. No 91 with 4
late 18th century fireplaces and an early 19th century iron hand pump in the
front garden by J.H. Powell, Lower Trinity Street Birmingham.
Number 93 (Gladstone Cottage)
Late 18th or early 19th century. Painted brick; tile roof.
Two storeys; 3 bays. Ground floor with an asymmetrically placed
slatted door and a single segment-headed tripartite casement window
either side. First floror with 2 segment-headed tripartite casements.
Brick dentil frieze.
The Baptist Church on
Yardley Road (Grade II)
Baptist church. 1913, by F.B. Andrews for the Baptist Chapel
Trustees. Red brick with freestone dressings. Plain tile roofs. Symmetrical Arts
and Crafts style elevation.
PLAN: Broad nave, narrow aisles, transepts, short apsidal
chancel and east [liturgical west] entrance. Freestyle.
EXTERIOR: East front has two large octagonal turrets sunnounted by louvred
bellcotes with cusped bell-openings between thin piers which rise above to the
shallow domed top; between the turrets a large deeply recessed Perpendicular
window, the turrets forming the jambs; below the window a pent roof porch with a
wide segmental arch; both the window arch and the porch arch are deeply moulded
and have fleurons. Flanking the turrets are wings with hipped roofs and 4-light
windows below the eaves. North and south sides have aisles with lean-to roofs
and segmental arch windows; similar clerestorey windows above. On the ridge of
the roof a fleche with bracketed eaves and small dome with finial.
INTERIOR: Exposed brick walls. Narrow 2-bay arcades with
double-chamfered 2-centred arches and similar but larger crossing arches to the
transepts. Clerestorey. Stone chancel arch. Wide nave with arch-braced roof on
corbels; similar chancel roof.
The Baptist church hall on Alexander Road (Grade II), listed
29.3.95
Baptist church hall, used as Sunday school. Dated 1903. English
bond red brick and terracotta. Plain tile roof with terracotta
coped gable ends and wavy ridge tiles. Brick gable-end stacks.
PLAN : Offices and entrance in the south front range; the hall
behind. Free Flemish Gothic
style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey south front of 3 bays; the centre bay breaks
forwards and gabled with small wavy pediment at apex and name
on terracotta scrolls below held by angels; central doorway with
panelled double doors, segmentally curved canopy / cornice on
consoles with putti below and deeply recessed overlight above
and flanking side-lights with teracotta tracery; panelled entablature
above; large B-light terracotta traceried Perpendicular window
above with moulded segmental arch. Bays to left and right have
3-light traceried terracotta windows with cusped heads, the ground
floor with transoms, the first floor with panelled aprons, centre
panel with shield; modillion eaves cornice and splayed corners
rising to squat polygonal turrets with panelled sides, fleurons
at the comers and heavy moulded cornice and copper-clad ogee cupola
with tall finial.
INTERIOR: Hall has arch-braced roof on corbels.
NOTE: The front of the building is an imposing free use of a flemish
Gothic style with fine terracotta dressings.
Number one, Mansfield Road (Pinfold House) (Grade II)
17th century, altered. Timber-framed; stuccoed; old tile roof.
Two storeys; 4 bays. Ground floor with a window, a modern door
within modern surround but with original flat moulded hood, and
2 windows. First floor with a window, now window, a window and
a blank window. All windows flush sashes with glazing bars. Moulded
cornice and parapet. To the right, a lower wall hiding the office
wing. the rear of exposed brick and with 2 projecting gabled bays.
Yardley Tools/Leonard's Garage Limited, Mansfield Road (Grade
II)
Perhaps 17th century in origin. Timber-framed outhouse to number
1 (Pinfold House). Painted brick infill; corrugated asbestos roof.
Left-hand bay gabled and advanced towards the road, tiled and
probably later. Inside, the roof trusses mostly concealed by a
false ceiling. to the right, a higher part; to the rear, modern
additions.
272 Yardley Road (Yardley Cemetery and Crematorium Lodge
(Grade II)
c. 1880. Polychromatic brick; stone dressings; tile roof. In
a Gothic style. two storeys; 3 bays. Ground floor with, on the
left, a canted bay window rising through 2 storeys and with slated
pyramidal roof and, on the right, 2 trefoil headed sash windows
whose front is carried across to form a porch for the central
door. On the right at first floor level are, left, 3 small lancets
and, right, a rose window beneath a gable. To the left of the
lodge, a long asymmetrically arranged single storeyed wing characterized
by a canted bay window, a small gabled bay and another, larger,
gabled bay with door.
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