The Argent Centre is a former pen factory at the corner of Frederick Street and Legge Road in the Jewellery Quarter.

It was designed by J.E. Poland in 1860 and has an L-shaped footprint ideal for long narrow workshops with natural light on both sides.

The renaissance-style exterior was built in red brick with stone and buff brick dressings, bandings, chequerwork and corner towers that once terminated in tiled spires.

The polychrome-banded square chimney once fed surplus steam to a suite of Turkish baths on the north side.

The Argent Centre is fireproof; its flat roof is asphalted and each of its floors is paved in brick and punctuated by flat hollow brick arches.

The former Birmingham Mint is on Icknield Street, Hockley.

It consists of a single Italianate range on Icknield Street which was built by Ralph Heaton II in 1860.

Three other ranges, which were centred on an internal courtyard, have been demolished.

Elkington's Silver-Electroplating Factory is on Newhall Street, Hockley

It is a red-brick building dating from 1838. which backs onto the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, and which once contained a steam-powered electric generator with 64 magnets and a rotating iron armature.

Silver-plated jewellery was mass-produced by placing metal trinkets in an electrically-charged silver-and-potassium cyanide solution.

Alexander Parkes, who was the works foreman, invented the world's first thermo-plastics here in 1856.

The factory later became a science museum and is now a mixed-use development led by a Travelodge hotel.

The Newman Coffin Works is on Fleet Street, Jewellery Quarter, Hockley.

It is a grade-two-listed former brass foundry that once manufactured coffin furniture.

It was designed by Richard Harley and built in orange brick with painted dressings in 1892-94.

At its peak in the 1950's, the works employed over 100 staff and exported brass fittings across the globe; it provided coffin furniture for the funerals of Sir Winston Churchill and Princess Diana.

After it closed in 2000, there was a plan to restore the factory as a museum specialising in the undertaking trade; however, funding was withdrawn in 2009.

In September 2010, the Birmingham Conservation Trust bought the building for £150,000 and attempted to raise funds for interim restoration; part of the restored building could be let as storage space/creative media studios (News Archive 21/09/10).

It is a cast-iron-decorated clocktower paid for by local jewellers and dedicated to Joseph Chamberlain, a former resident of Frederick Street, who abolished plate duties.

Neglected in the 1970's, it was restored in 1989 and is now electrically-operated without the need for a winding handle.

St Paul's Church, the Orthodox Cathedral, the Assay Office, the School of Jewellery, the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, the Queens Arms, the Red Lion and Soho House.

Hockley contains two conservation areas: (i) the Jewellery Quarter and (ii) Lozells & Soho Hill

This website contains an index of listed buildings in the Jewellery Quarter.