The Birmingham Mint and Metalworks, Icknield Street, Birmingham: Historic Buildings Report
Author(s): S Ely
The Birmingham Mint was completed in 1862. The architect is not known. The building was commissioned by Messrs Ralph Heaton and Sons, who moved from premises in 71 Bath Street. The new mint was constructed in Italianate style, in Birmingham red brick with stone dressings. It was extended in several phases in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century. The original building comprised a quadrangle of workshops divided into two smaller courtyards by flat-roofed workshops consisting of casting shops, rolling mills, an engine house and a boiler house. The front range of the original building, which housed the offices, counting house and warehouses survives but is substantially altered internally. Parts of the external walls of the ranges, which ran around the courtyard to the rear survive. Other buildings of mid and late 19th-century date may also survive within the remainder of the complex.
- Report Number:
- 136/2000
- Series:
- RCHME
- Pages:
- 52
- Keywords:
- Standing Building Building Investigation Building
