Digbeth Architecture research

I researched into the architecture of Digbeth, however we have now changed our idea to wasted/empty space. Although I thought could still be useful.

Digbeth is full of wonderful buildings, but there is a common idea that you have to go into the backstreets and hidden alleyways to really discover them. There are relatively few buildings on Digbeth High Street that really stand out as you past them; the Custard Factory is the main one. The buildings I research are some of Digbeth oldest ones.

The Bonser Warehouse (1860) is on Digbeth High Street. It is a tall narrow building with a pyramidal slate roof that was built in brick with stone dressings for the iron merchants Bonser & Co. Their name is inscribed on the door lintel beneath an iron-framed fanlight whose arch is enclosed by a keystone inscribed "warehouse".

The Digbeth Institute is on Digbeth High Street. Designed by Arthur Harrison, it was built in red-brick with grey terracotta dressings in 1907 as an institutional church attached to the Carr Lane Congregational Church.

Devonshire House is on High Street Deritend, Digbeth. It was built in the 1890's as offices for the Bird Custard factory which occupied an adjoining 3-acre site. Devonshire House became semi-derelict after Birds transferred production to Banbury in 1963, but was recently converted into 110 studios and offices for creative and media entrepreneurs.

Blakesley Hall Is a tutor  it is one of the oldest buildings in Birmingham and is a typical example of tutor architecture. The hall is a timber framed farmhouse built in 1950.

source:http://www.brumagem.co.uk/Architecture_Digbeth_Birmingham.shtm