122–124 Colmore Row is a

Grade I listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...

building on

Colmore Row Colmore Row is a street in Birmingham City Centre in the centre of Birmingham, England, running from Victoria Square, Birmingham, Victoria Square to just beyond Birmingham Snow Hill railway station, Snow Hill station. It is traditionally the ci ...

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, England. Built as the Eagle Insurance Offices it was later occupied by Orion Insurance and was Hudson's Coffee House until late 2011, It is currently Java Lounge Coffee House (). Completed in 1900, it was designed in an

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style by

William Lethaby William Richard Lethaby (18 January 1857 – 17 July 1931) was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of ...

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". 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.

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