28-29, TENBY STREET

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10277 29-APR-04

TENBY STREET 28-29

GV II

Manufactory and Brass Works, empty and damaged by fire at time of inspection. (August 2000). 1865-70, for John Clover. Lockfounder, with late C20 alterations. Red brick with stone dressings and decorative tilework. Slated roof with central chimney stack. PLAN: L-shaped range with street frontage entrance range and attached storeyed workshop range to rear, enclosing a rectangular courtyard. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 bays, with moulded semi-circular arch -headed doorway to right, its surround formed by panelled pilasters with Doric capitals. 6-panel door below individed semi-circular overlight. To the left a triple window, each light with a moulded semi-circular head and an advanced keyblock. Further left an inserted C20 double doorway . Above, decorated tile band and a moulded stone string course below the cills of the first floor single and 2-light windows, arranged 1:2:2:1. The openings have semi-circular heads, detailed as those to the ground floor. Between some windows at ground and first floor levels are slender engaged shafts with foliated capitals. Above, arcade of attic lights, alternate openings blind, with linked moulded heads. Dogtooth and modillion eaves decoration. Rear workshop range now without roof covering , of 3 storeys with with multi-pane cast iron frames. Forms a group with Nos. 30-31, Tenby Street (q.v.) A small- scale late C19 manufactory displaying distinctive domestic- scale architectural detailing to the main elevation and forming part of an extensive street frontage range of industrial buildings within a manufacturing district of Birmingham now considered to be of international significance.