Reliance Works Birmingham, Jewellery Quarter Apartments, West Midlands Property, Architecture
Reliance Works Jewellery Quarter Apartments Birmingham
8 Jan 2021
Former Reliance Works building in Birmingham Jewellery Quarter
Location: Caroline Street, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

Conversion begins to bring soulful living spaces to Birmingham?s Jewellery Quarter
Work has begun to sensitively convert a Grade II listed building in the heart of Birmingham?s Jewellery Quarter into exclusive soulful living spaces for urban city dwellers.
The Reliance Works located on Caroline Street, was formerly occupied by jewellery manufacturing firm Pickering and Mayell, who specialised in producing jewellery cases, window display fittings, and silver-plated products. It served as the hub for their jewellery-case-making plant for almost 100 years from 1913 until 2012 when the business merged with the Talbot group and eventually vacated the premises to relocate nearby.

The historic building dates to 1826 and consists of a pair of houses with rear workshops. It has a range of unique and original Georgian townhouse features including original signage, a decorative front door surround, and original timber beams and wooden-framed windows.
It will be converted into a mixture of townhouses, one bedroom and two bedroom apartments (nine apartments in total) with a new extension to the rear, and a small commercial unit on the ground floor after permission was secu...