101-113, BRANSTON STREET

This is a pair of manufactories, built in the late 19th century and altered in the late 20th century. They now form part of a larger works complex. The buildings are constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings, featuring a single gable stack to the north-west and a slated roof.

The street frontage comprises two ranges of rectangular buildings with parallel rear wings that originally enclosed narrow yards, which are now filled in. The right-hand frontage is three stories and has seven bays, with three segmental arch-headed ground-floor openings. One opening contains a double-height window, while the others are doorways, one with a roller shutter and the other with boarded double doors. The first floor has seven 6 over 6 pane sash windows, each beneath a gauged brick arched head. The upper floor has smaller-paned 8 over 8 pane sashes and a simple eaves cornice. A lower three-bay section to the left includes an inserted double doorway within a painted surround, with altered multi-pane windows to either side beneath flat lintels. The first floor has five windows with multi-pane metal frames, each beneath a shallow segmental arch. The upper floor has three windows with multi-pane frames, with a lintel band at eaves level.

Internally, the manufactories have been altered to allow access throughout the ground floor areas and to connect with the later corner premises of Buncher and Haseler. The earlier parts of the buildings retain parallel rear monopitch workshop ranges that originally enclosed two narrow yards, but are now roofed over at ground floor level. The upper floors retain their original features, including cast iron multi-pane window frames and some rear wall chimneys. The left-hand section includes a linking rear crosswing.

The buildings are listed for their group value with Messrs Buncher and Haselers’ Works and Nos. 115-121 Branston Street. They represent a late 19th-century amalgamation of manufactories forming part of a continuous street frontage, exemplifying the distinctive architecture of a Birmingham manufacturing district, now of international significance.