33, Hylton Street

33 Hylton Street is a late 19th-century manufactory located in Birmingham, with minor alterations made in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, although these are now overpainted. It features a single ridge stack and a slate roof.

The building has an L-shaped plan, with a storeyed workshop range that extends the full length of the plot behind the main frontage. The exterior is three stories high and has a two-bay street elevation that rises from a low blue brick plinth. On the left side, there are paired semi-circular headed doorways with barred semi-circular overlights and late 20th-century four-panel doors. The left doorway provides access to a passage leading to the rear yard. To the right, there is a tall tripartite sash window with a deep lintel interrupted by a shallow hood supported by moulded brackets. On the first floor, there are two windows with three-over-three pane sash frames, each below shallow bracketed hoods. The upper floor features late 20th-century joinery beneath a wide eaves cornice.

This building is part of a group with No. 35 Hylton Street and Nos. 27-31 Hylton Street. It contributes to a continuous street frontage made up entirely of manufactories, which are small-scale and detailed in a domestic style. This reflects the earlier 19th-century trend of converting and extending houses into workspaces and offices. However, these buildings are purpose-built industrial structures. Along with the parallel range of buildings on the west side of Vyse Street, they form a solid block of back-to-back manufactories, all featuring workshop ranges behind their frontages. The area is characterized by eccentric plot shapes and is recognized as the densest survival of such buildings in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, an internationally significant manufacturing district.