Victoria Mill

Victoria Mill is a tenement lace factory, now used as light industrial works, built between 1888 and 1907. Following a fire in 1902, parts of the building were rebuilt. It was commissioned by E Terah Hooley, a local industrialist, and completed by Ernest Jardine. The mill is constructed of red brick with blue and yellow brick and stone dressings, topped with slate roofs featuring numerous stone-coped gables on moulded kneelers, a moulded brick cornice. It rises four storeys and has 57 bays.

The main elevation, facing Derby Road, has a polished granite plinth, a rock-faced stone ground floor, and red brick upper floors with blue brick and stone bands. A moulded and dentilled stone cornice runs along the top. The facade features a five-bay arrangement with a projecting central bay surmounted by a square tower. The ground floor has a large, semi-circular headed doorcase with a raised keystone, a pulvinated frieze, and an open swan-necked pediment incorporating double-panelled doors and a fanlight. A pair of semi-circular headed windows with rock-faced stone voussoirs flank the doorcase, with flush stone bands at sill level. Above are pairs of iron casement windows under carved lintels with a lozenge design, alongside a large round window with keyblocks. Further above are five similar iron windows beneath carved lintels with a zig-zag design, and another five iron windows under moulded lintels. The central tower has a deep base inscribed "1906. JARDINE," with clock faces on each side, flanked by nookshafts to each corner supporting a bracketed cornice that curves over the clock faces. The tower is capped with an ogival fish-scale tiled copper roof with a vented frieze. The east elevation has 57 segment-headed iron casement windows beneath yellow brick heads to the ground, first, and second floors, each with stepped pilaster buttresses. The top floor has 57 similar flat-headed iron windows under moulded stone lintels. The west elevation is generally similar, with the addition of four full-height bow-fronted staircase turrets, featuring loading doors on all floors and small segment-headed stair windows to the front.

The interior originally had wooden floors supported on iron columns, and contained a steam engine with rope drive to all floors, which was removed around 1958. A chimney and external lavatories were also demolished. The building was reputedly the largest lace factory in the world.