Great Hampton Street Works is a Grade II* listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Jewellery works. 1 related planning application.
Great Hampton Street Works
- WRENN ID
- floating-brass-falcon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Jewellery works
- Address
- Great Hampton Street Works, 80, 81 and 82, Great Hampton Street B18, B18 6EW
- OS grid reference
- SP 061 880
- Coordinates
- 52.49069, -1.91073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Hampton Street Works, located at 80, 81, and 82 Great Hampton Street, Hockley, Birmingham, was constructed in the 1880s as a purpose-built jewellery factory. This imposing building is three storeys high and exhibits a high level of craftsmanship in its design. It is constructed primarily of red brick, with painted stone, cut brick, and engineering brick dressings. The windows are arranged in varied ranges across each floor, set into moulded sills. A deep, bracketed cornice and parapet tops the building, above which sits a steep gable end roof with copings. Upper-floor windows are set within pointed arcades, while those on the ground floor, symmetrically arranged around a waggon entrance to the left and an off-centre doorway, are framed in similar surrounds. A drip mould string with stiff leaf stops and ornate dragon-carved stops links these windows. The name of the works is displayed in lively lettering within a band below the first floor. The building's elevation remains largely unaltered and represents a rare survival on this scale of Birmingham Gothic architecture from the 1880s.
Local climate
Great Hampton Street Works receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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