199, Newhall Street

997/0/10244 NEWHALL STREET 29-APR-04 199

GV II Manufactory. Early C20. Red brick with ashlar detailing . Simplified Neo- Georgian style. PLAN: Street frontage office and warehouse range, with parallel workshop ranges to the rear. EXTERIOR: Newhall Street elevation of 6 bays, 3 storeys with basement at south-east end. Asymmetrical frontage, with entrance bay to south -east end, and vehicle entrance to bay 5, the bays delineated by plain pilasters. Main entrance with ashlar surround, with shallow hood supporting a moulded plaque, bearing inscription 'Est. 1850'. Flanking the doorway are integral lancets set below the door hood. Above, tripartite glazing bar sash windows, the centre opening 6 over 6 pane, with rubbed brick shallow arched head with keystone, the flanking lights 4 over 4 pane with flat brick heads. Shallow bracketed cills. Upper floor windows of matching pattern, but with stone lintels. Above a shallow stepped parapet with plain coping. Remaining bays with stacked tripartite windows of matching pattern. Entrance bay with double doors beneath flat lintel, and end bay with blind ground floor lights. James Street elevation with single bay return to the entrance bay, and tripartite windows set between plain pilasters and below a stepped parapet. To the north east, attached 4-bay range of 2 storey workshops, with 2 wide windows to each bay, mostly with small-paned iron frame beneath steel lintels A prominently-sited early C20 manufactory incorporating warehousing, office and workshop functions in an integrated design. It is one of a small number of early C20 designs which further develop the late C19 concept of the integrated manufactory using a current architectural vocabulary in a manufacturing district of Birmingham now considered to be of international significance.