The Steelhouse Lane Conservation Area consists of a largely unbroken late Victorian townscape in the Business Quarter of central Birmingham.

The designated area emerged from the creation of Corporation Street in the 1880's. It contains several landmark listed buildings including the Victoria Law Courts, the Children's Hospital and Central Methodist Hall.

Although architectural styles vary, there is a preponderance of richly-decorated neo-classical red-brick and terracotta buildings that display civic pride, commercial wealth and religious certitude.

Interwar development is largely sympathetic and includes the neo-Georgian Coroners Court, Central Fire Station and Central Police Station.

Post-war buildings generally favoured a horizontal axis, flat roofline and simple detail as exemplified by the Crown Court on Newton Street.

This website contains an index of statutory listed buildings in the Gun Quarter which includes the Steelhouse Lane Conservation Area.

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