Former Albert Mill On West Corner Of Junction With Ellesmere Street

This is a former cotton mill, now used as warehouses, built in 1869 and extended and altered at a later date. It is located on the west corner of the junction with Ellesmere Street in Manchester. The building is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings, and has a trapeziform plan reflecting its corner site. It rises four storeys over a basement, with a five-window facade facing Hulme Hall Road and a one-bay, six-bay, one-bay facade facing Ellesmere Street. A sill band runs to all floors, with an impost band on the third floor, and a stylised Lombard frieze above. The coped parapet has a central upstand inscribed with the date "1869". There are segmental-headed openings including coupled doorways at the left end of the ground floor, and small-paned metal-framed windows throughout. The long return facade to Ellesmere Street features projecting staircase/hoist/latrine towers at each end, with single windows (the east tower windows are blind), and mostly paired windows to the main range. A three-bay addition is located at the west end. The timber-floored construction suggests it was used for a specialised area of the textile industry.