33, Hylton Street

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10382 HYLTON STREET 29-APR-04 33

GV II Manufactory. Late C19 with minor late C20 alterations. Red brick with ashlar dressings, all now overpainted , single ridge stack and a slate roof covering. PLAN: L-shaped plan with storeyed workshop range extending the full length of the plot behind the frontage range. EXTERIOR: 3 storey, 2 bay street elevation rising from a low blue brick plinth. Paired semi-circular headed doorways to left-hand bay with barred semi-circular overlights and C20 4-panel doors. The left-hand doorway leads to the access passage to the rear yard. Further right, tall tripartite sash window with deep lintel interupted by shallow hood on moulded brackets. Above, 2 first floor windows with 3 over 3 pane sash frames below shallow bracketed hoods. Upper floor with late C20 joinery below wide eaves cornice. Forms a group with No.35, Hylton Street (q.v.) and Nos. 27-31 Hylton Street.(q.v.) This building forms part of a continuous street frontage range made up entirely of manufactories, all small-scale and detailed in domestic style, reflecting the earlier C19 pattern of converting and extending houses to form workspaces and offices. They are, however, consciously designed and planned , and purpose- built industrial buildings. Together with the parallel range of buildings to the west side of Vyse Street, they form a solid block of back-to-back manufactories, all with workshop ranges to the rear of frontage buildings. Eccentric plot shapes were fully utilised in this area, now with the densest such survival in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter , an area recognised as a manufacturing district of international significance.