199, Newhall Street

199 Newhall Street is an early 20th-century manufactory built in red brick with ashlar detailing, designed in a simplified Neo-Georgian style. The building features a street-facing office and warehouse range, with parallel workshop ranges located at the rear.

The Newhall Street elevation consists of six bays and stands three storeys tall, with a basement at the southeast end. The asymmetrical frontage includes an entrance bay at the southeast end and a vehicle entrance in bay five, with the bays separated by plain pilasters. The main entrance is framed by an ashlar surround and has a shallow hood that supports a moulded plaque inscribed with 'Est. 1850'. On either side of the doorway are integral lancets positioned beneath the door hood. Above the entrance, there are tripartite glazing bar sash windows, with the central window featuring a 6 over 6 pane design and a rubbed brick shallow arched head with a keystone. The flanking windows have a 4 over 4 pane configuration with flat brick heads and shallow bracketed cills. The upper floor windows follow a similar pattern but are topped with stone lintels. Above is a shallow stepped parapet with plain coping. The remaining bays display stacked tripartite windows in the same style. The entrance bay has double doors beneath a flat lintel, while the end bay features blind ground floor lights.

The James Street elevation includes a single bay return to the entrance bay, with tripartite windows set between plain pilasters and below a stepped parapet. To the northeast, there is an attached four-bay range of two-storey workshops, each bay containing two wide windows, mostly featuring small-paned iron frames supported by steel lintels.

This prominently-sited early 20th-century manufactory integrates warehousing, office, and workshop functions in its design. It is one of the few early 20th-century buildings that further develop the late 19th-century concept of the integrated manufactory, using contemporary architectural vocabulary in a manufacturing district of Birmingham that is now regarded as internationally significant.