St James’s House is a

Grade II 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, H ...

office building in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

, England. The 1950s building was designed for the Engineering and Allied Employer’s Federation by the local architect,

John Madin John Hardcastle Dalton Madin (23 March 1924 – 8 January 2012) was an English architect. His company, known as John H D Madin & Partners from 1962 and the John Madin Design Group from 1968, was active in Birmingham, England, Birmingham fo ...

, and built from 1955–1957. It is located at 16 Frederick Road, at its junction with St James Road (note spelling), in the

Edgbaston Edgbaston () is a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It lies immediately south-west of Birmingham city centre, and was historically in Warwickshire. The Ward (electoral subdivision), wards of Edgbaston and Nort ...

district of the city. It is one of fourteen post-war offices designed by leading architects listed by

Historic England Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is tasked with prot ...

in January 2015. They noted the "bold, modern exterior" and an interior designed to "forge constructive relations between employers and their workforce".

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* {{Coord, 52.4699, -1.9169, region:GB-BIR_type:landmark, display=title Grade II listed buildings in Birmingham John Madin Office buildings in Birmingham, West Midlands Edgbaston Buildings and structures completed in 1957 20th-century architecture in the United Kingdom