Doughtys Oil Mill And Attached Gatehouse And Grain Store

Doughty's Oil Mill, along with its attached gatehouse and grain store, is a former oil mill now used as an engineering works. It was built in 1863, with later 19th-century additions and 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of gault brick, featuring brick and stone dressings, and has a slate roof, showcasing a Baroque Revival style.

The exterior includes a channelled rusticated ground floor, eaves cornices, coped parapets, and pedimented gables. The windows are iron glazing bar casements; the ground floor has round-headed windows, while the upper floors have segment-headed windows. The oil mill is four storeys tall and consists of five bays, with a recessed centre that rises above the rest, flanked by two-bay wings defined by pilasters. A central segment-headed archway features quadrant jambs and spandrel panels inscribed with "Doughty's Oil Mill." Above this, there is a corniced projection with a datestone from 1863, and above that, a narrow vertical recess with a window on each floor. To the right of the archway are two windows, and to the left, there is a pair of panelled doors with a fanlight and a window. Each floor above has two windows on either side.

The gatehouse on the left has a pedimented centre with angle pilasters and a panelled parapet, featuring a pair of double doors in the centre. Above this, there is a mid-20th-century corrugated iron hoist enclosure cutting through the pediment.

The grain store, further left, is six storeys tall and consists of three bays, with rusticated pilasters and deep cornices on the top two floors. It has a higher pedimented gable with scroll brackets. The ground floor features three windows, and above, there is a full-height central recess with a round head and multiple keystones. There are hoist doors on three floors, with a round opening above them also featuring multiple keystones. An altered window is located above this, with a single window on each floor to the right. The left side has blocked windows and an attached full-height grain elevator. The interior has not been inspected.