Summary

A former Victorian gasworks retort house (built 1909) in Digbeth, Birmingham with 2,500-guest capacity. Day hire £2,500. Original industrial architecture from a 1841 gasworks site. One of the UK’s most distinctive large industrial filming spaces outside London.

About this location

50 Adderley Street is a genuinely rare filming resource: the former retort house of a Victorian-era Birmingham gasworks, built in 1909 to a design by Birmingham Council’s Gas Department under the Engineer-in-Chief Walter Chaney. The building sits on a gasworks site that dates to 1841, and the original industrial fabric remains visible in the architecture. At 2,500-person capacity this is a venue of a different scale from any studio on the market — suited to large-scale drama productions, commercials with substantial background talent, or any production that needs a huge, historically textured industrial interior. Digbeth is Birmingham’s most creatively active district, and the building forms part of the area’s established heritage. At £2,500/day this is at the upper end of Birmingham venue rates but substantially below what equivalent London industrial spaces cost. 4 Tagvenue reviews confirm the space has been used commercially.