White buildings in the Gun Quarter (on Bath Street) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
White buildings in the Gun Quarter (on Bath Street) / ell brown
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| 説明 | Road off Loveday Street. Are thse white buildings. Not sure if they date back to the gun making days of the area though. This is Bath Street.Another view of the BT Tower.On the far left is the Gunmakers Arms. Middle white building is part of a former gun making factory. 94 - 99 Bath Street. Closest on the right is 100 and 101 Bath Street. Now solicitors. formerly a warehouse.Details on 94 - 99 Bath Street:It used to be the Smith Press Industrial Works, described by PastScape as an Industrial Unit in Bath Street.Now it looks like houses, with the wall all painted white.The former gun making factory also includes 28a - 32 Shadwell Street in it's listing.Gun making factory. 1839-40 extended 1850-59. Flemish bond redbrick. painted on Shadwell Street elevation, inner ranges have Flemishstretcher bond stretcher bond brick walls. Slate roofs with gabledends. Rectangular plan overall with ranges facing Bath Street (SE)and Shadwell Street (NW) and 3 linking ranges framing 2 rectangularcentral courtyards. 2 storey 14 and 15-window ranges to Bath Streetand Shadwell Street respectively. 25-pane cast-iron windows insegmental-headed openings with stone cills. Bath Street has roundeddoorway to left and right with flush-panelled double doors, and semi-circular fanlights, the right hand (No 98) with radiating glazingbars. Shadwell Street (NW) elevation has cambered arch doorway toleft and right of centre, first floor leaded door to left of centreand 2 later vehicular entrances at centre. The elevations facing theinner court yards had similar multi-pane cast-iron windows insegmental headed openings, the centre range has brick buttressesbetween the windows. Apart from the north west range which is 2storeys the other elevations on the inner courtyards are 3 storeysbecause the yard level is lower than Bath Street. Interior: Littlealtered since C19. Winder and cast-iron spiral staircases, oldcounter and time clock for'clocking-in' in central range. Cast-ironchimneypiece in office and iron grate in 2nd floor offices. Boardedrafters to roofs with king-post trusses.Note The Bath Street (SE) range was built in 1839-40 for William Reada coach builder. By 1860 Thomas Mabbutt a gun implement makeroccupied part of Read's buildings which by then had been extendedaround two courtyards and to Shadwell Street. By 1871 Mabbuttoccupied the whole building and the 1876 Directory lists the wholebuilding as occupied by Abingdon Works Company Ltd., its managingdirector being Thomas Mabbutt. The factory was taken over in circa1907-8 by Humphries and Dawes, Cycle Makers. Since 1913 it has beenoccupied by various gun makers and light engineering firms.94 - 99 Bath Street - Heritage GatewayI wonder if these are peoples houses now? Or is it still a factory or some sorts (no more gun making obviously, that ended more than a century ago).This building at 101 Bath Street is currently occupied by the solicitors Parker Grego Cullen & Ball.PastScape says it used to be the Sovereign Warehouse. A warehouse built circa 1840 at the corner of Loveday Street and Bath Street.It is a Grade II listed building at 100 and 101 Bath Street. Currently painted white.Circa 1840-40, works, on corner with Loveday Street. Two and a half storeysred brick, plain side elevation but given monumental stucco front to BathStreet as if for a chapel. Three bays with centre slightly recessed. Quoinpilasters framing bays through 2 storeys up to deep frieze with string andmoulded cornice with blocking course raised as block pediment over recessedcentre. Plain iron framed small pane windows, panels between storeys on outerbays. Doorway full width of centre bay and in antis with Tuscan pilastersand plain entablature. Double panelled doors with marginal glazed rectangularfanlight, approached by flight of steps.100 and 101 Bath Street - Heritage Gateway |
| 撮影日 | 2009-09-12 11:26:02 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S1500 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/600) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |