94-99 Bath Street including 28A-32 Shadwell Street

A gun making factory built between 1839 and 1840, with extensions from 1850 to 1859. The building is located on Bath Street and includes numbers 28A to 32 Shadwell Street. Constructed of Flemish bond red brick, painted on the Shadwell Street elevation, with inner ranges featuring Flemish stretcher bond brick walls. The roof is slate with gabled ends. The rectangular plan incorporates ranges facing Bath Street (southeast) and Shadwell Street (northwest), connected by three ranges that enclose two central courtyards. The Bath Street and Shadwell Street facades each feature two-storey ranges with fourteen and fifteen windows respectively. These windows are cast-iron, with 25 panes set within segmental-headed openings and stone sills.

The Bath Street elevation has rounded doorways at each end with flush-panelled double doors and semi-circular fanlights, the right-hand doorway (number 98) featuring radiating glazing bars. The Shadwell Street elevation has cambered arch doorways to the left and right of centre, a first-floor leaded door to the left of centre, and two later vehicular entrances in the centre. The courtyard-facing elevations contain similar cast-iron windows within segmental-headed openings. Brick buttresses are placed between the windows in the central range. With the exception of the northwest range, all other elevations are three storeys high, reflecting the lower level of the inner courtyards in relation to Bath Street.

The interior retains largely original features from the 19th century. A winder staircase and a cast-iron spiral staircase are present, along with an old counter and a time clock used for "clocking-in" in the central range. A cast-iron chimneypiece is found in an office, and an iron grate in the second-floor offices. The roofs have boarded rafters supported by king-post trusses.

Originally built in 1839-40 for William Read, a coach builder, the Bath Street range was later occupied by Thomas Mabbutt, a gun implement maker, from around 1860. By 1871, Mabbutt occupied the entire building, and in 1876 it was listed as occupied by Abingdon Works Company Ltd. Humphries and Dawes, Cycle Makers, took over the factory around 1907-8. Since 1913, various gun makers and light engineering firms have occupied the building.