52, Albion Street

52 Albion Street is a manufactory built around 1865, with some alterations made in the late 20th century. The building features red brick with blue brick and painted dressings, along with brick gable chimney stacks on both roof slopes and a Welsh slate roof.

The structure has a rectangular plan and is three storeys high, presenting an asymmetrical street elevation with four bays. The main entrance is located in the second bay, flanked by windows, while there is a vehicle entrance at the right-hand end in the fourth bay. The doorway is set beneath a shallow segmental arch, adorned with a blue brick hood mould and painted springers and keyblock. It features a recessed doorway with a four-panel door and a four-pane overlight above. The ground and first-floor windows have late 20th-century undivided sash frames within segmental arch-headed openings that match the doorway's detailing. Continuous painted cill bands run along the ground and first floors, with smaller upper floor openings that have asymmetrically sub-divided frames. These windows replaced earlier sash frames with margin glazing. The building is topped with a stepped and dentilled blue brick eaves band, and the wide vehicular entrance on the right side has a shallow segmental arched head and a late 20th-century roller shutter.

Historically, No. 52 was purpose-built as a manufactory that included office, showroom, and workshop spaces, with its first occupant being a jewellery manufacturer. In 1954, the site was purchased by the current owners, who linked it to the adjacent workshops in 1979. This manufactory is a significant part of a larger range of 19th-century industrial buildings along the street and is recognized for its distinctive late 19th-century industrial architectural features, contributing to the historical character of this manufacturing district in Birmingham.