Manufactory
MANUFACTORY, 38-40, HYLTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389119
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Manufactory
- Statutory Address:
- MANUFACTORY, 38-40, HYLTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389119
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Manufactory
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANUFACTORY, 38-40, HYLTON STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MANUFACTORY, 38-40, HYLTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0600188129
Details
SP08NE
997/7/10313
20-DEC-00
BIRMINGHAM
HYLTON STREET
38-40
Manufactory
II
Manufactory. Late C19, with late C20 alterations. Red brick with painted stone dressings and moulded brick detailing. Single end gable chimney and a composition slate roof.
PLAN :Irregular U-plan, with near- symmetrical office range to street frontage, and storeyed workshop ranges extending the full length of the rear plot.
EXTERIOR: 8-bay street frontage range of 3 storeys, with wide segmental arch-headed vehicle entry to centre, leading to rear yard. Flanking the opening are pedestrian doorways with arched heads, 2 to the right, one with a 4-pane overlight leading to ground floor office, that to the left leading to stair. Doorway left of archway gives pedestrian access to rear yard. Further left, 2 windows with shallow arched heads and multi-pane metal window frames. All openings with painted brick heads, the windows with painted cills. Above, wide painted sign band, below raised storey band. First floor windows, detailed as at ground floor level, and smaller upper floor windows, all openings with multi-pane metal frames and chamfered jambs. Moulded brick cornice. Rear elevation with centre 3 bays visible, and with narrow multi-pane metal frames. Rear courtyard with narrow 9-bay, 3 storeyed workshop range to south-west side of yard, beneath a monopitch roof. 3 ground floor doorways, and 6 windows. First floor windows with mainly C20 replacement frames. 9 upper floor windows, all original openings with shallow- arched brick heads and multi-pane metal workshop windows. 3 rear wall chimney stacks, 2 wide stacks to bays 1 and 8, a smaller stack to bay 5. Stepped and truncated workshop range to north-east side, deeper in plan than that to opposite side of yard, with 4 bays of 2 storeys, and further 4 bays at single storey height, all now with C20 window frames.
INTERIOR: The 2 outermost bays to each end are offices, that to the left with a stair giving access to the first and second floor workshops. There is a second stair giving access to all floors from the north-west end of the yard. The right-hand part has a separate stair leading to first floor offices and a separate entrance for the ground floor office.
A late C19 manufactory, comprised of street frontage office accommodation and rear ranges of workshops, displaying architectural and plan form detail characteristic of late C19 industrial buildings in a manufacturing quarter of Birmingham now recognised as being of international significance
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486674
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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