Main Block And Wing To Harold Laycock Mills Fronting Summerville Road

The main block and wing date from 1873 and were built as Legrams Mill for George Hodgson, a loom manufacturer. Lockwood and Mawson acted as the architects. The mill is an imposing spinning mill with a 26-bay elevation to Legrams Lane, exhibiting Italianate detailing reminiscent of the architects' work at Saltaire. Constructed from sandstone “brick” with ashlar dressings, the roof is covered in stone slates. The building features full bands to each floor and a bracketed, prominent eaves cornice. The ground floor windows are arched and arranged in an arcade. The long front is flanked by projecting staircase towers, with paired round-arched windows to each floor, and a belvedere stage rising above the eaves cornice, topped by a pyramid-shaped roof. A similar pattern of windows appears on the return elevation facing Summerville Road. A campanile chimney has been significantly shortened.