36-37, HALL STREET

These are two small manufactories and shops, built around 1870, with later alterations in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick with moulded brick details, painted stone dressings, and bands of buff and blue brick. It has a central brick chimney and a slate roof.

The building's layout is a double, elongated "L" shape, with a central passage providing entry to a rear courtyard. Workshop ranges extend to the east and west.

The symmetrical front facade is three storeys high, with three bays. The ground floor has a shallow blue brick base and modern windows to each shop unit. Plain doorways are in the outer bays, each with a blocked rectangular overlight and a plain painted lintel. A narrow doorway to the central passage has a drip mould to the lintel. Above, bands of buff brick act as sills, and pairs of narrow corner pilasters frame a recessed frontage panel with three windows on each floor. The first floor has shallow arch-headed outer openings, and a narrow, semi-circular arch-headed central opening. Each opening has painted cills, arch springers, and keyblocks. A blue brick band steps above the window heads. All openings have sash frames, with the outer windows being margin glazed. The upper floor windows are set within an advanced lintel band with a dentilated eaves cornice.

The rear courtyard has single-storey and three-storey workshop ranges extending from the rear of the front building.

The building forms a group with numbers 32-35 Hall Street.

These are a pair of small late 19th century manufactories with attached workshops, demonstrating the architectural and layout characteristics of the industrial buildings in Birmingham, a manufacturing district now recognized for its international significance.