57-59, Tenby Street North

A manufactory, built around 1878, with minor alterations in the late 20th century. It is constructed of red brick with blue brick banding and decorative brickwork. The building has ridge and gable end stacks and a slate roof. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the building complex has a splayed U-shaped plan on a street corner site, featuring a dog-legged frontage range and a rear range extending eastwards to enclose a triangular yard.

The east elevation comprises six bays, three storeys high above a basement, with a shallow chamfered plinth. A group of three doorways is centrally located, with a single window to the right and two to the left. The central doorway provides access to the rear yard, the left-hand doorway to a stairwell, and the right to an office or workshop. Openings feature shallow pointed arch brick heads with undulating linked hood moulds above. Windows have sloping blue brick sills and undivided sash frames. Blue brick banding is present with raised cut brick decoration. Two outer doorways have cambered overlights and four-panel doors, while the passage doorway has a boarded door and blind overlight. First-floor window openings have steeply pointed brick arched heads, moulded imposts, painted cills, and cut brick decorative aprons. Upper-floor windows have shallow pointed arched heads and undivided sash frames, with a sparsely dentilled cill band. One opening is blind. Elaborate arcaded corbelled eaves detail the top of the building. The north elevation has eight bays, with doorways in bays 1 and 7. The facade detailing is similar to the east elevation, but with blocked windows to the upper floor of bay 1. Access to the rear courtyard is via a central door on the east elevation. Storey-high shopping ranges flank the courtyard, with external stairs at the west end. Basement areas are located beneath both ranges, and a single-story toilet block is situated in the center of the yard.

The interior features a fine turned baluster dog-legged stair with barley sugar newel posts, ball finials, and moulded handrails.

The building complex appears on an 1887 Ordnance Survey map and was designed for multiple occupants. It was identified as a jewellery works on an 1889 map, with five occupants listed in 1886. The manufactory displays characteristic detailing and plan features associated with a 19th-century industrial quarter of Birmingham, recognized for its international significance. It forms a group with numbers 60 and 61, and 62, Tenby Street North.