Description:Row of cottages at Soho Foundry, Handsworth (now W & T Avery Ltd), including number 13 where William Murdock lived for a while. He had originally come to join Matthew Boulton in the Soho Manufactory in 1777, and returned in 1797 the year after Soho Foundry opened. Later he was able to have Sycamore House (also known as Sycamore Hill), in Queens Head Road, built for him.