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122–124 Colmore Row
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Grade I listed building on Colmore Row in Birmingham, England
November 2019
122 & 124 Colmore Row Eagle Insurance offices Java Lounge Coffee House 122-124 Colmore Row.jpg yes UK Grade I 21 January 1970 13433751343375 13 November 2013 Commercial Arts and Crafts Evenacre Clive Reeves PR/ Java Lounge Coffee House 122 & 124 Colmore Row, Birmingham United Kingdom 1900 15 m ft 4 6,180 sq ft
William Lethaby
Joseph Lancaster Ball
122–124 Colmore Row is a Grade I listed building on Colmore Row in Birmingham, England. Built as the Eagle Insurance Offices it was later occupied by Orion InsurancePevsner Nikolaus Wedgwood Alexandra The Buildings of England: Warwickshire Yale University Press 1966 2003 0-300-09679-8 and was Hudson's Coffee House until late 2011, It is currently Java Lounge Coffee House (2015 07 y).
Completed in 1900, it was designed in an Arts and Crafts style by William Lethaby and Joseph Lancaster Ball. Pevsner's The Buildings of England: Warwickshire describes it as "one of the most original buildings of its date in England" and Foster's Birmingham (Pevsner Architectural Guides) as "one of the most important monuments of the Arts and Crafts Free Style in the country".Foster Andy Birmingham Pevsner Architectural Guides 2005 Yale University Press London 0-300-10731-5 93–95 Colmore Row Vaughan Hart, ‘William Richard Lethaby and the Holy Spirit’, Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, vol.36, 1993, pp.145-158.
Evenacre acquired the building in 2011 and undertook a £500,000 renovation of the building including restoration of the stone façade and interior works including a feature reception. In October 2014 CBRE started marketing the vacant building to potential tenants.IHistoric Colmore Row building undergoes £500k refurb https://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/commercial-property/historic-colmore-row-building-undergoes-8005920 27 Oct 2014 Birmingham Post 14 March 2014 Birmingham
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1343375 122 and 124 Colmore Row, B3
Location, OpenStreetMap
52.4804 -1.9017 title region:GB_scale:2000
Category:Office buildings completed in 1900
Category:Grade I listed office buildings
Birmingham, Colmore
Category:Grade I listed buildings in Birmingham