Caffe Nero at 44 Waterloo Street and 103 Colmore Row

Caffe Nero at 44 Waterloo Street and 103 Colmore Row.

Offices at Cathedral Place.

The view from Temple Row towards Waterloo Street and Temple Row West.

This Caffe Nero in the Colmore BID might close down for good at the end of May 2022.

It has been here since about 2009.

Was previously the Birmingham Midshires here (until about 2006).

Dates from 1900 - 02 by Mansell & Mansell. A fine office block in brick and cream terracotta, the steel structure firmly expressed in the brick and terracotta grid of the facade. Built for the Ocean Assurance Corporation with the initials and bands of roses and thistles, and waves and fishes, on the corner oriel. Finely moulded entrance. Shallow canted end bay. Delightful fantasy at the top: ogee windows, parapet with heart-shaped piercings, two-stage corner turret, end gables with brick and terracotta diapering. Ground floor windows lowered in 1983.

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster.

Grade II* Listed Building

44, Waterloo Street B2

Description

WATERLOO STREET
1.
5104
City Centre B2
No 44
SP 0686 NE 33/35 5.11.81
II*
2.
C1900. Brick and terracotta. In a Perpendicular Gothic style. Five storeys;
3 bays in the rhythm 1:2 plus the polygonal corner turret with entrance below
and another 4 bays on the return in Temple Row West. Ground floor with a
subsidiary entrance up steps and within a cusped and sub-cusped arch with
finial and 2 cusped and sub-cusped arched windows. The principal entrance up
steps and flanked by 2 orders of colonnettes and dainty decoration in the
stilted arches; left and right polygonal shafts carrying beasts bearing shields
inscribed O and A. First, second and third floors each with 3 cross windows
with cusped lights and set between horizontal moulded bands variously treated
in their details. Fourth floor with three 2 light ogee headed windows. Thin
banded polygonal buttresses rise either side of bay 1 almost to parapet height;
even thinner moulded shafts rise likewise left, right and between the other bays.
The polygonal corner turret is fenestrated similarly - as is the return on Temple
Row West. All except ground and first floor windows with original leaded lights.
Parapet with complex gable-cum-chimney, parapet and corner polygonal turret with
pointed slate roof.

Listing NGR: SP0689886970

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Taken on: May 5, 2022

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