Exchange Buildings (Birmingham) | hotel, office building, bank, commercial building

 hotel, office building, bank, commercial building

Exchange Buildings is an office building on the corner of New Street and Stephenson Place in Birmingham city centre. The building is owned by the Governors of King Edward's Grammar School, due to the school originally being located partly on the site until 1936. The building is let to Aviva who sublet it to HSBC who occupy the entire office structure and have a main bank branch on the ground floor which fronts onto New Street. The branch was extensively refurbished in June 2011.

The access ramp to the Pallasades Shopping Centre runs alongside the building, with numerous retail units being located along it, within the building.

The building is located on the site of the New Exchange Building, which was built 1863-1865 to a design by Edward Holmes. It was doubled in size by J. A. Chatwin in 1876-78. The dramatic and prominent building was used as an exchange place for the merchants of the city. It was taken into public sector control in 1880 under the Joint Stock Companies Act. In the centre was a 110 foot tower with an electric clock made by John Inshaw.
Now a premier INN.