61, Caroline Street

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10369 CAROLINE STREET 29-APR-04 61

GV II Former manufactory, empty and undergoing refurbishment at the time of inspection ( September 2000 ) Late C19, with alterations C20 alterations, refurbished 2000-1. Red brick with painted ashlar dressings and blue brick detailing. Single gable stack shared with adjacent property, and slate roof covering. PLAN: Elongated L-plan formed by frontage range and attached workshop range extending westwards to rear of street frontage range.. EXTERIOR: Street frontage range of 2 storeys with attic, rising from a shallow blue brick plinth. 4 bays with doorway to left with moulded surround and pointed segmental arch- headed lintel with hood mould above shallow arched overlight, now blocked. To the right -hand side, a drop arch-headed lintel above cusped overlight to doorway giving access to covered passage. Between the doorways, 2, 2 over 2 pane sash windows with painted sills. 4 narrow first floor windows with cills set on painted band course, one with a 2 over 2 pane sash window with a semi-circular headed upper sash, the remaining openings covered. Painted impost band with blue brick margins supports dentilled and dog- toothed eaves and 4 tall gabled dormers with C21 2 over 2 pane sash windows. Former workshop range to rear rebuilt in altered form. INTERIOR. Altered during most recent refurbishment, but retaining stick baluster stair to rear of entrance hall. Forms a group with No.60 Caroline Street q.v.) and Nos. 58-59 Caroline Street (q.v.) A former late C19 purpose- built manufactory, built as part of a pair with, and sharing the same architectural detail as No. 60 Caroline Street (q.v.) of a form and appearance characteristic of late C19 manufacturing premises in a specialist industrial quarter of Birmingham now recognised as being of international significance .