21-22, HALL STREET

This is a late 19th-century manufactory, later adapted for use as wholesale jewellers. It has undergone alterations in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with terracotta detailing, and features a shallow pitched roof with tall gable stacks, covered in slate, set behind a shallow parapet. It has an L-shaped plan, built on a corner plot with an entrance within the splayed junction of the two street-facing ranges.

The Hall Street frontage is two storeys and four bays, rising from a shallow moulded plinth band. The ground floor has three windows: a wide four-light display window to the left, and two two-light windows to the right, all with over-boarded transom lights. The window openings have shallow arched heads, and an undulating string course acts as a linked drip mould above. A heavier string course also defines the upper edge of a flat storey band. The upper floor has two windows, with two paired openings to the left and two to the right, each with stilted arch heads, advanced fluted keyblocks, and hood moulds linked to the upper string course at window transom level. A complex dentilled eaves cornice sits below a shallow parapet with moulded coping.

The corner entrance has a shallow brick pilaster surround, imposts, and a stepped semi-circular arch with a fluted keyblock supporting a curved, corbelled base for an oriel turret. This turret has a stepped cill panel with three recessed narrow lights separated by slender terracotta piers, moulded window heads, and a deeply moulded cornice, topped with a stepped terracotta dome.

The Kenyon Street elevation has five bays, with stacked window openings preserving original transomed two-light frames, arranged in a 2:3 layout, with the wider windows to the right. The window openings are similarly detailed to those on the Hall Street elevation. Three basement windows are situated at the right-hand end, reflecting the slope of the ground.

Inside, the main entrance leads to a stick baluster staircase rising from the rear of the entrance lobby. The building forms a group with No. 42 Caroline Street. It is a prominently-situated late 19th-century manufactory illustrating the evolution of consciously-designed manufactories of the period, in contrast to the earlier, more adaptable workshops like those of Pickering and Mayell.