West Range At Cornish Place Works

This is a large, integrated cutlery and steel works, dating from the late 18th century and early 19th century, with significant additions from the mid-19th century and later alterations. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, featuring gabled and hipped slate roofs and various stacks.

A prominent block facing Green Lane, built around 1860, exhibits a plinth, rusticated quoins, sillbands, a moulded cornice, a single ridge stack, and two gable stacks. A parapet includes a raised central panel inscribed "Cornish Place." The block is three storeys high with a six-window range. The ground floor and first-floor windows are margin-light sashes with round heads, impost bands, and keystones, with aprons below the ground floor windows. The second floor has segment-headed glazing bar windows with keystones. A recessed panel between the first and second floors displays an enamel sign reading "James Dixon & Sons" by the Patent Enamel Co., Birmingham.

The left return, facing Cornish Street, has three upper-floor windows, a 20th-century entrance door and two windows on the ground floor. To the left is a lower range with a blind clerestory roof and six round-headed blank recesses, the left one with an apron and the others with basement lights. A taller block to the left again is three storeys high with a twelve-window range. The first floor windows are mostly 16-pane sashes, with four being blank. Above, there is continuous glazing with 27 two-light round-headed casements. The ground floor has an off-centre plain sash flanked by seven windows to the left and three to the right, all blank or shuttered. Five further windows are located to the right. An elliptical arched cart entrance is situated to the right, with a late 19th-century block, four storeys high with a two-window range, to its left. The ground and first floors of this block have nine-pane sashes with multi-keystone lintels, some of which have been altered. Second and third floors have segment-headed two-light casements, the third-floor windows being smaller.

An inner courtyard contains an 18th-century block with two-storey canted bay windows at either end, featuring glazing bar sashes on the lower two floors, and an added second floor with casements. Most of the other courtyard fronts are four storeys high and feature segment-arched windows on sillbands. A smaller north-west courtyard likely contains two-storey buildings, probably stables, service buildings, and workshops. The north-east ranges, backing onto the river, likely date to the late 18th and early 19th centuries and may contain crucible stacks.

The interior has not been inspected. The works produced a variety of items, reflecting its integrated steel and cutlery production.