58-59, Caroline Street

58-59 Caroline Street is a late 19th-century building that originally served as a manufactory, now used as offices and workshops, with minor alterations made in the 20th century. The structure is made of red brick, featuring painted stone dressings and blue brick detailing.

The building has a J-shaped plan, with a three-storey street frontage that consists of four bays, rising from a chamfered blue brick plinth. On the left side, there is a wide semi-circular headed doorway flanked by recessed columns with foliated capitals and a semi-circular overlight above. A painted ashlar hoodmould with an elongated painted keystone tops the entrance. A four-panel door leads into a wide staircase and an office located to the right. Further to the right, there are a pair of semi-circular headed sash windows with rubbed brick arches, beneath a painted hood mould that rises from an impost band. Late 20th-century railed gates are present, and a vehicle entrance is located on the right side, beneath a shallow segmental rubbed brick arch and painted hood mould.

A patterned tile and blue brick storey band supports four first-floor sash windows, which are topped with stilted arch heads and painted dressings. The upper floor features a painted storey band that supports seven small round-headed windows, with rubbed brick heads and blue brick margins. The rear elevation includes workshop windows on the upper floors. Attached to the rear is a two-storey workshop range with four bays, featuring multi-pane metal window frames and shallow arch-headed openings with blue brick margins. There is also a three-bay return range.

Inside, the staircase on the left side of the frontage leads to first-floor workshops, and there is an entrance to the yard workshops at the back of the frontage range. This building forms a group with No. 59 Caroline Street and Nos. 60 and 61 Caroline Street. It remains largely unaltered and is a purpose-built manufactory with attached workshops, showcasing features typical of late 19th-century manufacturing premises in a specialist industrial area of Birmingham, which is now recognized for its international significance.