Christopher Wray Lighting is located on Bartholomew Row next to Millennium Point, it’s a complicated building that has come across issues over the years. The range of buildings which make up the site is surrounded on all sides by modern development, most recently the University, but itself is an interesting part of the city's history. It’s made up of a row of three townhouses that front the street, these frozen in time and haven't been worked in since 2003. The site has had a lot of misfortune over recent years, with failed purchases, failed demolition applications and its value has plummeted from over £2 million to negative £1 million. Two of the townhouses are original Georgian residences, which predate the earliest map of the city, indicating their age could date back as far as 1720, this makes the building listed and so it’s very hard to create a plan for the future of the site and conservation. This ages of the buildings makes them the oldest surviving dwellings in the city centre and are vitally important part of Birmingham's architectural history.
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