19-23, Vyse Street is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2004. Manufactories, shops. 1 related planning application.

19-23, Vyse Street

WRENN ID
narrow-flint-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Birmingham
Constituency
Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 2004
Type
Manufactories, shops
Address
19-23, Vyse Street, B18 6LE
OS grid reference
SP 060 879
Coordinates
52.48917, -1.91287
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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.

Local climate

19-23, Vyse Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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