St Georges Street Mill

A silk throwing mill, now used as offices, dating to approximately 1840, along with a pair of houses incorporating weavers' garrets. The building is constructed of brick with a Welsh slate roof. It has three storeys and a six-window front. The design is domestic in scale and detail. On the west side, a segmentally-arched entry leads to a rear courtyard. A six-panelled door with a radial fanlight is positioned to the right, flanked by four windows. All windows feature wood mullions and transoms, with upper opening vents and flat-arched gauged brick heads. The lower windows have small panes at the top. There are moulded wood eaves. The rear elevation has a similar pattern of windows, with three- and nine-light windows on the upper floors, and blocked openings, possibly for loading, on the ground floor. Internally, the structure is based on timber beams, supporting a queen strut and king post roof. The mill building functions as the attic storey of Nos. 5 and 7 St George’s Street, which are double-pile houses. Some original window detailing remains in No.5, while replacement windows are found in original openings in No.7. The attic storey has long workshop windows to the rear and mullioned and transomed windows to the front, mirroring those in the mill.