9 And 10, Mill Hill

9 and 10 Mill Hill is a house, warehouse, and workshops that have been converted into a shop and offices. It was built in the early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of brick, rendered and lined to imitate ashlar, with a slate roof and larger eaves courses. There are brick stacks, one very tall on the far left and another at the ridge between the fifth and sixth windows. The structure has three storeys and is six windows wide. The first floor features tall narrow sash windows with segmental arches, sills, flush frames, and traces of wedge lintels. The second floor has five square windows, with a sash window on the far left and a projecting sill on the right where there is no window.

On the ground floor, the main entrance for No. 9 is located below the third window and has a moulded surround and overlight, while No. 10 has a plain entrance on the far right, both featuring 20th-century projecting shop fronts. Inside, the main room, illuminated by windows three and four, contains an 18th-century fireplace against the left wall, adorned with fluted pilasters, a dentilled cornice, and a decorated frieze, along with fielded-panel shutters on the windows. There are remnants of two sets of original stairs: one set at the rear left on the upper floors with two flights and slender column balusters, and the other on the right leading to a stairway with a top flight featuring fine knopped column and vase balusters. The roof structure includes at least one truss with a king post and braces extending from the base to the underside of the principal rafter.

This house was likely built for a merchant clothier and is a rare survival in the oldest part of the city. Historically, the building was divided by 1826, likely horizontally, with No. 10 accessed from the stairs on the right. It was used by a cabinet maker, upholsterer, and a boot and shoe maker. By 1839, a tailor and draper occupied No. 9, while Daniel Backhouse, an overlooker in a textile mill, lived at No. 10. The tailor and draper remained until at least 1861, but by 1851, an eating house had been established at No. 10, with maps indicating that the house backed onto Princes Court.