The Boat Gauging House, Tipton Canal Basin (Off Factory Road) Birmingham Canal Birmingham Level

The Boat Gauging House is a single-storey building constructed in 1873 for the Birmingham Navigation Company, located alongside the Factory Locks at Tipton Canal Basin. It features red and blue bricks arranged in alternating bands of English bond, topped with a stepped brick cornice. The hipped slate roof is adorned with decorative cast iron cresting along the ridge.

The northern side of the building has eight evenly spaced bays, each with round-arched windows framed in blue brick. The southern side mirrors this design but includes a doorway with a 20th-century sliding door in the second and third bays from the right, as well as a gabled projecting wing in the second bay from the left. This wing has a window with a cambered head on its west side and a blocked doorway on the east side. The eastern end features a central outshut that has lost its roof, with an arched doorway on the right, an arched window on the left, and a central chimney stack. Flanking this outshut are arched windows, with the left one being blocked. The west end has two large arched openings that previously led to the gauging docks but are now blocked with 20th-century brickwork. Above these openings are two small arched windows on either side of a date stone inscribed with '1873', topped by a chimney stack with a splayed top.

Inside, the building originally contained two docks running west to east, allowing boats to enter from the western end. These docks have since been infilled and leveled with the surrounding dockside. The lock gates that would have been installed within the western doorways, along with internal cranes supplied by Tangye Brothers of Smethwick, have been removed, as has the boiler from the lean-to boiler house at the eastern end.