Regency Mill

Regency Mill is a former silk mill, now used as joinery works and previously a card factory, dating from around 1820. The building is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The main block is accompanied by ancillary buildings, including an engine house and weaving sheds located at the rear. The weaving sheds consist of five parallel north-lit ranges built against a curtain wall facing Oxford Road. The main block is L-shaped with a short two-bay wing at the rear.

The exterior of the main elevation has 17 bays arranged in a pattern of 6-5-6, with an advanced and pedimented central section. The building has four storeys and a basement, with all windows featuring flat-arched gauged brick heads and 36-pane sashes, along with some 4-pane sashes and transomed windows on the ground floor. The former main doorway, located in bay 3, is disused and features a Doric case with a six-panelled door and radial fan; the building is now accessed through a doorway in the curtain wall on Oxford Road. A clock is positioned in the apex of the pediment, and there is a bell cupola on the roof. A heavy moulded stone cornice runs along the top of the building.

At the rear right, there is an external stair tower with an adjoining privy tower, and a second stair tower projects at the inner angle of the main range and rear wing to the left. A square-section stack, which appears to connect to the former detached engine house via a horizontal underground flue, breaks through the cornice at the rear left.

Inside, the mill features a single span with timber beams and a queen post roof structure, along with collar and bracing. The lower floors have had supplementary steel columns and supports added more recently. Cast-iron columns support the roof structure of the weaving sheds, creating a continuous working area. The mill is a notable example of an integrated site that included silk manufacture, throwing, weaving, and dyeing.