39, Vyse Street

39 Vyse Street is a shop and workshops that were formerly two manufactories, built in the late 19th century with some alterations made in the later 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings, featuring gable and mid-pitch chimney stacks, and a composition slate roof.

The building has a rectangular street frontage with a back-to-back L-shaped range of workshops at the rear. The two-storey frontage consists of three bays, with two doors on the left, followed by a doorway leading to a stair, a wide central double door, and a tripartite sash window. Above these openings is a painted lintel band with moulded brick decoration. There are three rectangular raised brick panels above the ground floor openings, and a painted cill band supports two first-floor openings with three-light sash frames set within moulded surrounds, shallow segmental arched heads, and raised, pedimented keyblocks. The eaves are decorated with moulded and dentilled detailing.

Historically, the plot was shown on the Piggot-Smith map around 1855 as a single dwelling. The site was redeveloped after around 1869 to create manufactories, as indicated on the 1889 Ordnance Survey map. Kelly's Directory from 1886 lists two occupants, Pearce and Thompson, manufacturing jewellers, and J. Goering, a jewel case maker.

This building forms a group with Nos. 37, 37a, and 38 Vyse Street, as well as Nos. 40 and 41 Vyse Street. It represents a pair of former manufactories from around 1870, redeveloped from a former dwelling, and is designed in a domestic scale and form, with storeyed workshop ranges at the rear. This complex showcases distinctive architectural and planning characteristics typical of industrial premises in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, which is now recognized as an internationally significant manufacturing district.