Old buildings at the corner of Sheepcote Street and St Vincent Street in Birmingham.

All part of the historic Roundhouse complex.

Grade II* listed buildings.

Horse Shoe Shaped Former Stables and Stores at Number 23 (City of Birmingham Engineers Depot), Birmingham

   SHEEPCOTE STREET
   1.
   5104 Ladywood B16
   Horse-shoe shaped former
   stables and stores at No
   23 (City of Birmingham
   Engineers Depot)
   SP 0586 NE 31/9 22.11.76
   II*
   2.
   C1840 and built for the London and North Western Railway as a mineral and coal
   wharf. Asymmetrical composition of horseshoe design built within the angle of
   Sheepcote and St Vincent Streets where the entrance is flanked by 2 houses.
   Ribbed ramps laid from the entrance, one straight down and under an arch at the
   crown of the horseshoe, the other around the horseshoe and over the arch. Red
   brick and some stone trim; slate roofs. The stables and stores are arranged in
   a horseshoe shape and stand above more streets approached by the many roads under
   the arch. They consist of 10 single storeyed bays, a central 152 storeyed bays
   and another 10 single storeyed bays. The arrangement is somewhat impaired on
   the right by a later glazed wooden addition. Round headed wooden casement
   windows and segment headed stable doors. Beneath the arch, at the back of this
   building, more streets within arches separated one from another by battered buttresses.

   Listing NGR: SP0563586790

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