47, Frederick Street

This is a manufactory built in 1879, with later alterations in the late 20th century. It was designed by Foulkes and Ryland, architects for D.L. Davies and Sons, a manufacturing jeweller. The building is constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings, featuring prominent ribbed brick gable and ridge chimneys and a plain tile roof.

Originally an L-shaped building, a rear workshop range has since been removed. The street frontage has four bays, with the three bays to the left designed in a symmetrical double-fronted domestic style. These feature a central doorway and flanking advanced full-height bay windows that extend to attic level as tall hipped dormers. The plinth and quoins are chamfered and painted stone, with a moulded surround to the semi-circular arch-headed doorway, incorporating a plain overlight and a keystone linked to a stepped string course that extends to the flanking bays. The tripartite sash windows in the bays have diminutive pediments above the middle of the lintel, with the string course acting as a hood mould above. The first-floor windows are flat-headed and the bays narrow to form dormers, each with a plain sash frame. The right-hand end bay, now providing vehicle access to the rear yard, has a stepped string course above a sign panel and a pair of first-floor sashes. A moulded string course sits above the first-floor windows, with an octagonal panel decorated with a leaf motif set on top of it in each bay. Moulded brick corbels support a stone eaves band.

The building originally included rooms for residential use, such as bedrooms and a nursery. Workshops were added to the rear by 1887 and expanded to cover the entire rear garden; these outbuildings are now demolished. The building forms a group with 48 and 22 Frederick Street.

The manufactory represents an unusual example of a building designed to incorporate both industrial and domestic facilities, situated in a former residential area that became an industrial quarter in the second half of the 19th century. This area is now recognised as being of international significance.