St James’s House is a

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

office building in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

, 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 for over 30 years. Bio ...

, 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 an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, historically in Warwickshire, and curved around the southwest of the city centre. In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family an ...

district of the city. It is one, of the fourteen finest 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 Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is tasked wit ...

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