Former Minton Hollins Tile Works

The former Minton Hollins Tile Works is a disused tile works office range built in 1869 by Charles Lynam for Michael Daintry Hollins of the Minton Hollins Tile Company Ltd. The building is constructed of red brick, accented with orange and red brick and stone dressings, and features decorative tiled elements. It has a slate hipped roof with various truncated stacks, louvres, and a stepped ridge parapet located to the right of the center.

This two-storey structure has 27 bays, with notable features including an oriel window in the twelfth bay from the right, which has a tall hipped roof in the French Renaissance style. There are two entrances in the eighth and ninth bays from the right; the left entrance is narrower than the standard bay width, while the right entrance is wider. Both entrances have cast-iron lintels above the pedestrian and carriage arches. The remaining bays are adorned with round-arched windows on the ground floor, which are recessed in round arches with brick dressings, stone key blocks, and hoodmoulds, along with tiled tympana. The upper windows feature moulded stone lintels with rosette decoration. The bays are separated by buttresses that have moulded stone weathering blocks at both ground-floor and first-floor levels.

Inside, there is a main staircase leading to the offices on the first floor, which is of the three-flight open-well type and includes a cast-iron handrail. The walls of the stairwell were previously decorated with examples of Minton Hollins tiles. This building served as the main office range for the tile works, which has largely been demolished, and it housed offices, a board room, showrooms, a museum, as well as spaces for the final stages of production, including packing, storing, and warehousing.