Albion Warehouse

Albion Warehouse, originally built as a school and now serving as a warehouse, was constructed between 1861 and 1862 by architects Paull and Ayliffe. The building features polychromatic brick with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It has 11 bays and two storeys, with projecting stair wings at the rear and a lower four-bay wing to the left. Designed in the Italianate style, it includes a projecting plinth, a first-floor band, white brick striations, and a bracketed eaves cornice.

The front and rear are highlighted by a central three-bay projection that is pedimented and features a round-arched two-light window with tracery on the first floor. The rear projection is flanked by stair wings that extend further out and are also pedimented. At the front, elaborate ashlar door surrounds with foliated capitals to the columns, a semi-circular hood, and a dropped keystone enhance the entrance. The windows are symmetrically arranged, with 8-pane casements that have segmental-brick arched heads and keystones on the ground floor, and semi-circular heads with an impost band and polychromatic voussoirs on the first floor. The building has a hipped roof, with pedimented projections at each end and a decorative tower resembling a campanile topped with a pyramidal roof.

The adjoining boundary wall features decorative cast-iron railings, which have been removed to the east, set on a stone plinth with gate posts. Inside, the first floor boasts an impressive hall with arched bracing to the queen-post roof trusses, along with various timber, cast-iron, and plasterwork details.