19-23, VYSE STREET

19-23 Vyse Street is a terrace of four manufactories and shops, originally built as dwellings with attached workshops around 1848. These buildings were converted to industrial use shortly after their construction, remodeled in the late 19th century, and have undergone minor alterations in the 20th century. The structure is made of red brick with painted dressings and features cut and moulded brick detailing, with mid-slope stacks on both the front and rear roof pitches, topped with a composition slate roof.

The exterior presents a near-symmetrical range of 11 bays across two storeys, featuring four entrance doorways and two passage doorways that provide access to the rear workshop areas. The entrance doorways are located in bays 1, 5, 7, and 11, with all but the doorway in bay 7 having panelled reveals and recessed doors beneath ornamental fanlights and semi-circular rubbed brick arches. The doorway in bay 7 has been remodeled and widened, framed by flanking pilasters and featuring a semi-circular overlight set back within a cut brick surround. Above this doorway is a brick panel with an inset painted plaque, positioned below a semi-circular light with a hood mould. The passage doorways in bays 2 and 9 have infilled overlights and 20th-century doors. Bays 4, 6, 8, and 10 are highlighted by full-height canted bay windows, predominantly fitted with sash windows, some of which are two-paned. The ground floor areas primarily consist of shop display windows.

The rear workshop ranges extend the full length of each plot and were originally accessed by a shared passage. Although the interiors have not been fully inspected, ground floor doorways indicate staircases leading to upper floor workshops, with the staircase in bay 7 being particularly wide and accommodating.

This terrace forms a group with Nos. 16-19 Vyse Street and No. 94 Vyse Street. It represents a late 19th-century industrial development, reflecting the conversion of mid-19th-century dwellings into manufactories, contributing to the early growth of a historically significant manufacturing district.