61, Tenby Street North

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10367 29-APR-04

TENBY STREET NORTH 61

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Manufactory. Late C19, with late C20 alterations. Red brick, with blue brick detailing and painted stone dressings beneath a composition slate roof covering. PLAN: Elongated L-plan with narrow street frontage range, with attached range of workshops extending west to rear of plot. EXTERIOR: 3 bay frontage range of 2 storeys, rising from a shallow blue brick plinth. 2 ground floor doorways, now with C20 doors with diagonal boarding, the openings with chamfered cut brick surrounds and shouldered springers to shallow pointed arched heads with advanced faceted keystones. Painted cill band with dog-toothed brickwork below, and 3 shallow arch-headed first floor windows openings with margin-glazed sashes. Above, complex moulded brick eaves cornice . 2- storeyed range of workshops attached at rear on south side of plot, with low monopitch added single storey lean-to enclosing a narrow yard. INTERIOR: Right-hand doorway with enclosed passage access to rear shopping . Forms a group with Nos.58 and 59, Tenby Street North (q.v.) and No.63, Tenby Street North (q.v.) A tiny purpose- built manufactory of late C19 date, forming part of a densely- populated street frontage made up entirely of industrial premises. The viability of such a small site, located close to much larger works demonstrates the demand for sites at a period of rapid expansion within a manufacturing quarter of Birmingham now recognised as being of international significance.