Victoria Flax Mill Entrance Range And Bollards

The Victoria Flax Mill entrance range and bollards, built around 1860 to 1870, served as offices and warehouses for the flax spinning firm Titley and Co, previously located on Water Lane. The structure is made of red-brown brick in English bond, featuring a low-pitch slate roof, stone modillion eaves cornice, quoins, sill bands, keyblocks, and a rusticated stone plinth. It stands three storeys tall with 15 windows; four on the left and six on the right are slightly projected. A carriage arch is located in the center of the right projection, framed by stone quoins and a round arch with vermiculated rustication and a projecting keyblock. The ground-floor windows are round-arched while the upper-floor windows are segmental, all set in double recesses with large vermiculated keystones. On either side of the archway, there is a pair of cast-iron bollards with ball finials, which may have been repositioned from closer to the curb. The interior has not been inspected. Titley and Co took over the Victoria Mills complex originally built by W.B. Holdsworth, and an insurance map from around 1902 indicates that this range features brick-arched floors supported by cast-iron columns.