It was designed in the Venetian Gothic Style by Chamberlain and Martin in the 1890's and features elaborate terracotta mouldings.

The Bell Edison Building was the Central Telephone Exchange from 1897 until 1936 and the logo of the National Telephone Company is still visible on the porch.

The basement was converted into a radiation-proof bunker in the 1950's.

Designed by Yeoville Thomason in 1885, it was built in stone with a tiled roof and is 46 metres high with a 4.5-metre pendulum and Westminster chimes that can be heard throughout the city centre.

Built by Yeoville Thomason in 1874-79, the main facade consists of a 3-bay central portico flanked by two symmetrical 8-bay wings that terminate in advanced outer bays with segmental pediments.

The mass is unified by a dome, lantern and spire seated on a drum above the apex of the central portico.

The interior contains council offices, committee rooms, the Council Chamber, the Mayoral Suite, a Banqueting Hall with minstrel's gallery and a grand staircase directly beneath the dome.

It was designed in the arts and crafts style in 1900 by William Lethaby who believed that architecture was a philosophical science affecting spiritual well-being and not an aesthetic discipline that should merely repeat exaggerated revivals of previous architectural styles.

The Eagle Insurance Building does however retain some classical elements such as the pilasters between the windows and the alternating segmental and triangular pediments above the Romanesque frieze on the third storey.

However, the usual central portico has been replaced by a vast window flanked by twin doorways whilst the attic storey features an innovative chequered facade and eagle sculpture.

The Main Hall, which seats 2000, contains a vast Edwardian pipe organ and is illuminated by a row of double-storey round-arched windows.

The reception hall features a spectacular two-winged staircase; there are excellent figure carvings in the porch and the ground floor bays on Corporation Street  contain original Edwardian shop fronts.

It was established as the Birmingham Medical School in 1828 and moved to Paradise Street after receiving a Royal Charter in 1843.

The college's medical and scientific departments transferred to Mason Science College in Edmund Street in the 1890's and the theological department relocated to Edgbaston in the 1920's.

Queens College was then rebuilt as an office block; however, its facade was preserved. The main entrance is beneath an ogee arch whose canopied niche contains a statue of Queen Victoria. The ground floor features a segmental arcade; the piers of the central and end bays terminate in triangular gables.

Designed by Chamberlain & Martin in the Gothic style, it was built in red-brick with terracotta and stone dressings and consists of four storeys, a basement, and three bays divided by buttresses that terminate in diminutive gables.

The main entrance is through an open stone porch whose arch supports a balcony and canted bay window.

Designed in the Decorated Gothic Style by Chamberlain and Martin, it was built in red-brick and terracotta in 1881-85.

The five-bay facade on Margaret Street features three asymmetrical gables with a roundrel and Art Nouveau foliage on the left gable, trefoil lancets beneath the central mosaic gable and a three-lancet roundrel on the taller right gable.

A tiled frieze of lilies & sunflowers encircles the building; the roof features a bracketed eaves cornice and decorative ridge tiles; the interior contains carved capitals, stained-glass and mosaic floors.

It is a "peripteral temple" being rectangular in shape and on a rusticated podium with an external Corinthian colonnade.

It was built in red-brick with marble facing in 1832-34 as Birmingham, then ruled by an unelected board of street commissioners, prepared for democratic local government.

The architects, Joseph Hanson and Edward Welch, were inspired by the ruined temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome.

However, they encountered structural problems in their attempt to recreate a ruined classical building and were bankrupted by the project which was completed by Charles Edge.

Designed by Yeoville Thomasen in the late 1860's, it was built in stone with a rusticated ground floor and open Corinthian porch.

The first floor windows are set behind a decorative balustrade and crowned by triangular pediments; there are segmental pediments above the porch and corner windows. A foliage frieze runs beneath the bracketed eaves cornice and the roof features a balustrade punctuated by decorative urns.

The interior has been rebuilt: a mansard roof being added to increase office space whilst preserving the Victorian facade.

There are many other listed buildings in the Business Quarter of central Birmingham, including St Philips CE Cathedral, St Chad's RC Cathedral, the Victoria Law Courts and Methodist Central Hall.

The Business Quarter also contains the Colmore Row and Steelhouse Lane conservation areas.

This website also contains an index of statutory listed buildings in the Gun Quarter within the Business Quarter.