35, Hylton Street

35 Hylton Street is a late 19th-century manufactory with minor 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of red brick with painted ashlar dressings, featuring a single ridge stack and a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a storeyed workshop range extending the full length of the plot behind the main frontage.

The exterior showcases a three-storey, three-bay street elevation that rises from a low blue brick plinth. There are two semi-circular arch-headed doorways; the left doorway serves as the main entrance, while the right provides access to a passage leading to the rear yard. Both doors are set beneath semi-circular fanlights and hood moulds. The centre bay at ground floor level is recessed and includes a wide three-light display window, which is framed by a moulded shallow segmental arch and features an arch-headed centre light. The first floor has three windows with deep lintels, interrupted by shallow hoods supported on moulded brackets, and all windows are fitted with 2 over 2 pane sash frames. The upper floor windows have shallow 2 over 2 pane sash frames beneath rubbed brick wedge lintels and a deep painted eaves cornice.

This building is part of a group with Nos. 37-39 Hylton Street and No. 33 Hylton Street. It contributes to a continuous street frontage of manufactories, which are small-scale and designed in a domestic style, reflecting the early 19th-century trend of converting and extending houses for use as workspaces and offices. However, these are consciously designed and purpose-built industrial buildings. Along with the parallel range of buildings on the west side of Vyse Street, they form a solid block of back-to-back manufactories, all featuring workshop ranges behind the main buildings. The area has a history of eccentric plot shapes, now representing the densest survival of such structures in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, which is recognized as a manufacturing district of international significance.