Aizlewoods Mill

SHEFFIELD

SK3588SE NURSERY STREET 784-1/16/559 (North East side) 18/10/88 Aizlewood's Mill

GV II

Corn mill, now offices and industrial units. 1847. By William Flockton of Sheffield. For John Aizlewood. Later C19 additions. Restored and converted 1989. Red brick with hipped and gabled slate roofs. EXTERIOR: main block has bracketed eaves and panelled parapet. 6 storeys; 10 window range. L-plan. East front, to Nursery Lane, has 9 segment-headed tripartite windows with the 8th bay having double loft doors and C20 balcony. Above, 9 similar tripartite windows with a single loft door and balcony. The next 2 floors have 8 segment-headed tripartite windows with the 4th and 8th bays having double loft doors and balconies. The top floor has 8 round-headed tripartite windows and 2 round-headed loft doors, the right one with a balcony. The openings on the 4 upper floors are linked by 10 round-headed vertical sunken panels, which alternate on the top floor with sunken square panels. Ground floor has, to left, a large round-headed carriage entrance, and to its right a C20 door flanked by 2 round-headed windows. To right, a round-headed C20 door flanked by single C20 entrances, the left one blocked. North front, to Spitalfields, has similar fenestration with 5 windows. The upper 4 floors are linked by 5 round-headed vertical sunken panels with 3 floors of segment-headed tripartite windows and the top floor with round-headed tripartite windows. Ground floor has 5 round-headed windows. The entrance front, to Nursery Street, has to left a 6 storey projecting wing, its lower floors covered by adjoining buildings. On each floor, 3 tripartite windows, the lower 2 floors linked by round-headed sunken panels, the added upper floor with round-headed windows. Right return has similar fenestration, restored, on 6 floors, with round-headed openings to the ground floor. To right, the inner courtyard of the 6 storey main block has similar fenestration to the east and north fronts. In the 5th bay, a very tall square brick chimney stack. To its left, a C20 glazed door with metal canopy. To its right, a C20 carriage opening. To left, in front of the wing, 2 mid C19 additions, 3 storeys, with gables facing the courtyard. Both have second-floor brick bands and tripartite windows in round-headed openings. Wider left gable has 2 pairs of windows, the right one taller. Above, 5 windows, and above them, a round window in the gable. Ground floor has 2 round-headed entrances to right. Smaller right gable has 2 pairs of windows on the 2 upper floors, and a round window in the gable. Ground floor has 2 large round-headed openings. INTERIOR has cast-iron Doric columns supporting wooden beams, and queen post truss roof with cast-iron joints. Top floor has a hopper, worm and cyclone, mid C20, and at the north end a stairwell with a belt-type grain elevator.

Listing NGR: SK3562288092