91-92, Vittoria Street

91-92 Vittoria Street is a manufactory with attached workshops, built around 1890, featuring minor alterations from the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and blue brick detailing, topped with a Welsh slate roof and crested red clay ridge tiles.

The structure has an L-shaped plan, with a street-facing entrance range and a storeyed rear workshop range that overlooks a service yard. The exterior includes a five-bay, two-storey frontage that rises from a shallow blue brick plinth. On the left side, there is a transomed three-light display window beneath a three-centred arch head, flanked by arch-headed doorways with multi-pane overlights. Above these openings, a hood mould with label stops is linked to the keystone of the wide central arch. Further to the right, there is a depressed segmental arch-headed vehicle entrance with a stopped dripmould and vertically-boarded doors. The upper floor features five windows with chamfered lintels and cills, arranged as two-over-two pane asymmetrically-divided sash frames. A decorative moulded brick eaves cornice adds to the detailing. The seven-bay, two-storey rear workshop range has multi-pane cast-iron window frames set on sloping blue brick cills beneath shallow brick-arched heads on both sides.

Inside, the left-hand doorway leads to a plain stairwell with vertically-boarded lining, providing separate access to the upper floor. The right-hand door gives access to the ground floor of the frontage, while a side passage to the south allows separate access to the rear ground floor.

This building is part of a group with Nos. 85 and 87 Vittoria Street and the School of Jewellery. It is a small, well-preserved purpose-built manufactory from around 1890, designed for multiple occupants, featuring numerous window openings on three elevations and a distinctive interior layout that accommodates separate ground and first-floor spaces. This design is characteristic of the industrial quarter of Birmingham, which is now recognized for its international significance.