Albion Mews

Albion Mews is a drill hall built in 1868 by James Harrison, funded by public subscriptions. It has been converted into flats in the mid-20th century. The building features stone-dressed brick, mostly painted, and a grey slate roof. It has two storeys plus an added recessed attic with a Mansard roof. At the east end, there is a three-storey gatehouse tower that includes a red sandstone archway with moulded arrises on the jambs and double-chamfered voussoirs, along with battered buttresses. The west wing has a two-meter high brick plinth that is now rendered, a rectangular loop, and three stone cross-windows on the first storey. There are three recessed panels with blank shields, a stone cross-window with pointed upper lights, and a quatrefoil in a recessed stone circlet above the archway. The second storey features a one-light transomed stone window and three cross-windows with a shouldered arch, a pointed arch, and another shouldered arch for the upper lights. The crenellated parapet of the west wing has a small square turret at the west corner with machicolated crenels. The third storey of the gatehouse includes a two-light mullioned window, a crenellated parapet, and a corner turret with machicolated crenels. The gatehouse archway has double cross-boarded doors. The east side is constructed in English garden wall bond. The interior has been rebuilt.