Building occupied by Archibald Kenrick and Sons

Image: © Philip Halling Taken: 16 Aug 2016

Victorian business premises on Hall Street, viewed here from the passing M5 motorway. For me this is a memorable landmark on the M5 when travelling through the West Midlands. This Grade II listed building dates from 1880. Historic England description Offices and stores for engineering works. 1880s. Brick with some dressings of stone and terra cotta. Tile roofs. Gothic style. Three storeys. Seven gables face Hall Street. On the ground floor is an arcade of 14 pointed arches, chamfered in three orders. All contain windows except for the 12th, which contains a door. Each of the two central gabled sections is of three bays. The central bays contain paired windows separated by shafts set within a two-storey recess with a cusped round opening under its pointed head. Under the second and fifth gables are two bays, but the fifth has three windows on the first floor. The left hand gable is of one bay. The two right hand gables have paired windows separated by shafts, the upper ones with pointed heads, within pointed recesses. The sixth is of two bays. The seventh is of one bay, its right hand side being cut into by a clock tower. This has paired lancet openings under a pointed stone head with quatrefoil. Above are clock faces within stone gables with tracery decoration. Above is a short spire now covered by felt, with timber lucarnes. Source: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1342664

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