Trocadero and Albert Chambers
Trocadero and Albert Chambers, Temple Street, B2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076130
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Trocadero and Albert Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- Trocadero and Albert Chambers, Temple Street, B2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076130
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Trocadero and Albert Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- Trocadero and Albert Chambers, Temple Street, B2
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Trocadero and Albert Chambers, Temple Street, B2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 06924 86855
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 May 2025 to correct a typo in the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SP 0686 NE
33/36
City Centre
TEMPLE STREET B2
Trocadero and Albert Chambers
II
Mid C19, altered in the late C19. Ground floor of yellow tiles with some green and brown decorative work; upper storeys stuccoed. Three storeys; three bays, the outer two advanced and with boldly cut quoins left and right. Ground floor with plasters carrying an entablature with mosaic frieze in which ' Trocadero ', garlands and 'Albert Chambers' and a dentilled cornice. Within this framework is set a modern front between, on the left, an original wide arched entrance flanked by columns with stained glass windows above and, on the right, a subsidiary entrance to the chambers above. First and second floors each with four windows, those of the first floor with a moulded cornice running across their heads, those of the second floor with moulded sills and, the centre two, with big blocks above them. All window sashes complete with glazing bars. Heavily bracketted moulded eaves cornice. Only vestigial remains inside of the decoration of circa 1900.
Listing NGR: SP0692486855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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