Millgate Folk Museum The Navigation Company Brasserie

The Millgate Folk Museum and The Navigation Company Brasserie occupies a former Trent Navigation Company warehouse and adjoining maltings, built in 1870. It was likely constructed for the Gilstrap family, maltsters, and built by W Duke, builder. The brick building has slate roofs. The river frontage features a five-storey warehouse with a hipped roof and a six-window range, including loft doors in the third bay. A hoist gallery is located on the fourth floor, with a larger doorway on the ground floor beneath the hoist, flanked by two smaller doorways. These ground floor openings have twentieth-century glazing. Above the upper floors is the inscription "Trent navigation Co. Wharf & Warehouse." A central, gabled range, four storeys and five windows, includes a tall, round-headed, multi-story window in the right bay and a small gabled hoist canopy with altered hoist doors on the second and third floors. A glazed hoist door is also present on the ground floor. To the right is a lower, half-hipped range, featuring the base and coping of an octagonal chimney stack inscribed "W Duke Builder N...70”. The right return, facing Mill Lane, features a segmental carriage opening with a dated keystone and stone quoins, alongside two windows. The rear of the warehouse has a four-storey range with a full-width cantilevered stone gallery on the first floor, accessible by an external stone stair, and irregular fenestration with three large doorways on the ground floor. The warehouse interior reveals segmental brick arches on the ground floor and above, with wooden floors supported by round and cruciform iron piers, while the maltings have wooden floors and round iron piers.