Coates the Printers

Coates The Printers is a former Mission Hall and Soup Kitchen, now functioning as a printers works, built in 1886 and designed by F R Wilson. The building is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs adorned with ornate bargeboards, topped by two square ventilators with pyramidal roofs. It has a single gable and four wall stacks, with quoins marking the corners.

The structure is two storeys tall, with the Mission Hall being the taller section on the upper floor. The east front showcases three 4-light cross casements. To the left, there are two small shuttered openings, and to the right, a doorway with a low plank door and a tall 2-light overlight, along with a blocked door. Above, three tall canted bay windows are set into the wall, each featuring 4-light cross casements with moulded heads. Between these windows, there is a flush stack to the left and an external stack supported on corbels to the right, which forms the head of the lower door.

The south front includes a two-storey canted projection with a single two-storey canted bay window. A low attached wall with a blocked gateway is present, bearing the date 1886. The west front features three tall two-storey canted bay windows sunk into the wall, each with ornate timber gables and barge boards. To the left is a doorway with a plank door and a moulded arched head and overlight. On the upper floors, there are two external stacks supported on stone corbels. To the right, there is a cross casement window and a projecting gabled porch, which has a pointed arched doorway with double plank doors, and above it, a quatrefoil with a blank shield.