66 And 68, Vittoria Street

This is a late 19th-century manufactory with minor alterations made in the late 20th century. It is constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings, moulded brick decoration, brick ridge and gable stacks, and a slate roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, with a three-story, three-bay street frontage range that includes a covered goods bay on the right and a central rear range.

The main entrance is in the left-hand bay, with a vehicle entrance and a separate pedestrian entrance to the right. The main doorway is flanked by lancet windows, all with semi-circular arched heads featuring painted springers, keyblocks, and a hood mould. A panelled door with a semi-circular overlight sits above the entrance, flanked by sash windows within sash frames. The central bay has paired sash windows beneath segmental arched heads banded with brick. The right-hand bay features grouped vehicle and pedestrian entrances beneath a wide segmental brick arch, which has inner arched heads and is divided by a narrow brick pier. The vehicle entrance has diagonally-boarded double doors, and the pedestrian doorway features a panelled door with an overlight.

The first floor has three triple-light sash windows divided asymmetrically, each set within a semi-circular arched head with a prominent keystone. The sashes are separated by painted shafts and rise from a sill band. Linked hood moulds stretch from painted imposts. The upper floor has a clerestory of 13 shallow arch-headed lights with sash frames, with painted plaques on moulded brick corbels forming an interrupted eaves cornice.

Inside, the main entrance hall contains an imposing curved turned baluster staircase rising from a geometrically-patterned encaustic tile floor. The stair handrails are moulded with scrolled terminals. The building forms a group with No. 64 Vittoria Street, and is considered a carefully-detailed and relatively unaltered late 19th-century manufactory that exemplifies the architecture and plan form of industrial premises within a historically significant area of Birmingham.