1-7 Sloane Street

1-7 Sloane Street is a former brass foundry, built around 1854, with additions made in 1887 and alterations in the 20th century. It was constructed by David Malins, who was a brass founder, upholsterer, and ironmonger. The building is made of red brick with painted stone dressings, featuring truncated gable stacks and a slate roof.

The structure has a courtyard plan on a deep rectangular plot, with storeyed ranges extending to the south-east and south-west sides of the rear yard. The street-facing range has eight bays and rises three storeys above a basement, starting from a shallow blue brick plinth. The ground floor openings are set beneath a wide lintel band and cornice, with the bays separated by pilasters. In bays two and six, there are tall doorways with panelled double doors. Bay three features a single panelled door with a multi-pane overlight above it. The centre has a wide vehicle entrance with 20th-century railed gates. The remaining bays contain 8 over 8 pane sash windows set in recessed panels between the pilasters. The first floor has 8, 6 over 6 pane sashes with gauged brick heads and painted sills, while the upper floor has semi-circular arch-headed openings with 2 over 2 pane sashes and a moulded sill band. The building is topped with a moulded eaves cornice.

At the rear, there is a three-storey attached range with a painted ground floor and a lower 20th-century extension that connects to a mid-19th-century cross range at the south-west end of the courtyard.

Historically, the works were known as 'Tyndall Works' by 1886. The site appears to have been developed in two phases, with only part of the frontage range visible on the Piggot-Smith map from 1855-1861, although the rear ranges were already in place by that time.

This mid-19th-century brass foundry site has a little-altered street frontage and surviving rear ranges, representing a significant part of the metalworking industries in Birmingham's manufacturing quarter, which is now recognized for its international significance.