Manufactory

This is a late 19th-century manufactory, with alterations made in the late 20th century. It is constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings, moulded brick detailing, a single end gable chimney, and a composition slate roof. The building follows an irregular U-shaped plan, featuring a near-symmetrical office range facing the street, and storeyed workshop ranges extending along the rear plot.

The street frontage comprises an 8-bay, 3-storey range, with a wide segmental arch-headed vehicle entry in the center, leading to a rear yard. Flanking the arch are pedestrian doorways with arched heads, two to the right, one with a 4-pane overlight leading to a ground floor office, and one to the left providing access to a stair. A further doorway to the left provides pedestrian access to the rear yard. To the far left are two windows with shallow arched heads and multi-pane metal window frames. All openings have painted brick heads, and the windows have painted cills. Above, there is a wide painted sign band, below a raised storey band. First-floor windows mirror those on the ground floor, and smaller upper-floor windows are present, all with multi-pane metal frames and chamfered jambs. A moulded brick cornice tops the frontage. The rear elevation shows three bays, featuring narrow multi-pane metal frames. A rear courtyard contains a narrow, 9-bay, 3-storey workshop range on the south-west side, beneath a monopitch roof. This range has three ground floor doorways and six windows. First-floor windows have mainly 20th-century replacement frames. Nine upper-floor windows retain original openings with shallow-arched brick heads and multi-pane metal workshop windows. There are three rear wall chimney stacks: two wide stacks in bays 1 and 8, and a smaller stack in bay 5. A stepped and truncated workshop range extends from the north-east side, projecting deeper into the plot, with four bays of 2 storeys, and a further four bays at single-storey height, all now with 20th-century window frames.

Internally, the two outermost bays at each end are offices. The left-hand office contains a stair leading to the first and second-floor workshops. A second stair provides access to all floors from the north-west end of the yard. The right-hand part has a separate stair leading to first-floor offices, and its own entrance for the ground-floor office.

The manufactory dates from the late 19th century and combines street-front office accommodation with rear workshop ranges. It exhibits architectural and plan features typical of late 19th-century industrial buildings within a historically significant manufacturing quarter of Birmingham.