16, 17 AND 18, VYSE STREET

16, 17, and 18 Vyse Street is a terrace of four manufactories and shops, which were originally dwellings, built around 1848. The buildings were adapted shortly after their construction and underwent alterations in the late 19th century, with some minor changes in the 20th century. They are constructed of red brick with painted dressings and cut brick detailing, featuring mid-slope stacks on both roof pitches and a composition slate roof.

The exterior presents a nearly symmetrical two-storey range of seven bays. There are doorways in bays 1, 3, and 7, along with a passage entrance in bay 5. Each doorway has a semi-circular rubbed brick arched head with ornamental fanlights, and the four-panel doors are set back within panelled reveals. Above each doorway is a single light window beneath a shallow segmental brick arched head. Bays 2, 4, and 6 feature shallow full-height bay windows on shallow plinths, with flat painted heads and roll-moulded brick surrounds, complemented by dentilled capitals on the ground floor flanking piers that resemble pilasters. The shop fronts on the ground floor of each bay have 20th-century undivided glazing. Bay 5 includes a semi-circular arch-headed passage entrance with a barred overlight and a 20th-century door.

Inside, there are plain staircases within the hallways leading to upper floor doorways. The rear workshop ranges extend to the end of the plots, with the workshop for No. 17 being L-shaped and including a return range along the rear boundary.

This terrace forms a group with No. 12 and No. 15 Vyse Street. It represents a range of late 19th-century manufactories, each with attached rear workshops, set behind a unified architectural frontage. These buildings were created from the conversion and adaptation of earlier dwellings and reflect the mid- to late 19th-century expansion of this historically significant manufacturing district, which is now recognized for its international importance.