3-5, Warstone Lane

BIRMINGHAM

997/0/10373 WARSTONE LANE 29-APR-04 3-5

GV II Small manufactory. Late C19 with C20 alterations. Painted channelled and lined out stucco on brick, with truncated gable stacks and a slate roof covering. PLAN: L-shaped complex with angled addition to rear workshop range. EXTERIOR: 3-bay street frontage range of 2 storeys and attic. Doorway to left with bracketed shallow hood and blocked overlight. Boarded C20 door. Further right, 3 sash windows, 2 over 2 panes with bracketed hoods. First floor openings with C20 replacement joinery beneath stepped voussoired heads, and shallow attic openings with C20 multi-pane frames. Dentilled eaves. 3-storeyed, 3 bay workshop range extends from east side of rear elevation, at an acute angle to the frontage range. Listed for group value with No.7 Warstone Lane (q.v.) and No.6 Warstone Lane (q.v.) A small late C19 manufactory with surviving integral workshop range to rear, and forming part of a significant street frontage grouping of similar buildings at the heart of a manufacturing district of Birmingham now considered to be of international significance. The eccentric shape of the rear workshop ranges illustrates the pressure of development in the Quarter in the late C19 when even the most marginal plots could provide workshop space.