8-14, Hylton Street

This is a workshop and office building, originally an integrated manufactory, dating from around 1905. It has undergone alterations and additions in the mid- and late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with painted dressings and extensive cut and moulded brick ornament, and has a hipped roof covered in slate, with a chimney to the west end.

The building occupies a rectangular site with parallel, two-storey ranges on the north and south sides of a central yard, the yard is now largely overbuilt. The front range has an 11-bay facade, rising from an interrupted low, chamfered plinth and incorporating a basement. The ground floor features three pedestrian doorways and ten window openings, with shallow brick pilasters supporting a painted ribbed lintel band. The left-hand doorway has a tall, eight-panel door with a barred rectangular overlight; the right-hand doorway has a 20th-century three-panel door with an infilled overlight. A third doorway, recessed within a deep reveal in the ninth bay, provides access to the end three bays. The ground-floor windows are inset within brick panels and are of two and three-light form, each light containing two panes and a small overlight. These windows have moulded frames and mullions, and are set upon stepped, chamfered cills. Tall basement lights with diamond lattice glazing extend to beneath the cills of the ground-floor windows. Above the lintel band is a composite storey band of cut brickwork and painted stone. Upper-floor windows sit on shallow painted sills, with toothed brickwork below openings that have semi-circular, rubbed brick arched heads, topped by painted hood moulds springing from painted imposts. Late 20th-century window frames are in place. A deep cornice of moulded and cut brickwork is set above a thin string course. The rear elevation of the front range is largely obscured by infill on the rear yard.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process.

Historical records from 1916 indicate that W.H. Haseler, Jewellers, occupied the site. In 1920, the works were significantly enlarged with the construction of adjacent buildings at Nos. 16-24 Hylton Street, now in separate ownership.

The building forms a group with Nos. 2-6, Hylton Street and Nos. 16-24 Hylton Street. It represents an early 20th-century purpose-built jewellery works, with limited external alteration, and along with its adjacent factory (formerly part of the same ownership and designed as an extension), forms a notable example of early 20th-century industrial architecture, located within a historically significant manufacturing district of Birmingham.