Nile Mill

Nile Mill is a steam-powered cotton spinning mill built in 1898 by P S Stott for the Nile Spinning and Doubling Company Ltd. Originally designed as a ring spinning mill, it had a top storey added in 1905 and the card room extended in 1907. The structure features a cast-iron and steel frame with brick-arched ceilings, and is clad in brick with a flat, likely concrete, roof.

The mill has a double plan with a central engine house that partially projects to the rear, balanced at the front by a projecting tower. It stands four storeys tall, with carding areas on the ground floor and spinning floors above. Each half of the building has nine bays divided by pilasters, each containing three very wide windows. Yellow brick bands serve as lintels, and there is decorative corbelling on the upper storey. The stair towers at each corner feature angle pilasters with corbelled panels, and there is a stone parapet. The card room extensions include a single-storey section on the right and a two-storey section on the left, both similarly detailed.

There have been some alterations to the central tower, which likely housed taking-in doors, as it was modified during the conversion to electrical power. Loading doors with a hoist are located to the right of the 13-bay return elevation. The engine house is partially integrated into the main body of the mill and partially projects from the centre of the rear elevation, featuring two round-arched windows and lower upper windows. A stack with white brick lettering is situated beyond the engine house, connected by a single-storey boiler house. A sprinkler tower rises above the engine house, extending one storey above the roof line.

Additionally, there is a detached office block to the south of the site, which is single-storeyed and constructed of brick with painted stone dressings. The mill is notable for being a good example of a double mill and is recognized as one of the earliest purpose-built ring spinning mills, which was the largest in the world at the time of its construction.