61, Caroline Street

61 Caroline Street is a former manufactory built in the late 19th century, currently empty and undergoing refurbishment as of September 2000. The building features red brick construction with painted ashlar dressings and blue brick detailing, topped with a slate roof and a single gable stack shared with the adjacent property.

The structure has an elongated L-plan, consisting of a street frontage range and an attached workshop range that extends westward behind the street-facing section. The street frontage is two storeys high with an attic, rising from a shallow blue brick plinth. It has four bays, with a doorway on the left featuring a moulded surround and a pointed segmental arch-headed lintel, above which is a hood mould and a now-blocked shallow arched overlight. On the right side, there is a doorway with a drop arch-headed lintel and a cusped overlight leading to a covered passage. Between these doorways are two 2 over 2 pane sash windows with painted sills. The first floor has four narrow windows with cills on a painted band course, including one 2 over 2 pane sash window with a semi-circular headed upper sash; the other openings are covered. A painted impost band with blue brick margins supports dentilled and dog-toothed eaves, along with four tall gabled dormers featuring 21st-century 2 over 2 pane sash windows. The former workshop range at the rear has been rebuilt in an altered form.

Inside, the building has been altered during the recent refurbishment but retains a stick baluster stair at the rear of the entrance hall. This property forms a group with No. 60 Caroline Street and Nos. 58-59 Caroline Street. It was purpose-built as a manufactory and shares architectural details with No. 60, reflecting the typical appearance of late 19th-century manufacturing premises in a significant industrial area of Birmingham.