Waterloo Mill

Waterloo Mill is a silk mill built between 1893 and 1894 by JG Smith for Messrs William Broster. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys high and has 18 bays, with a prominent central entrance and stair tower, along with four-window returns. The tower includes a central entrance with a round-arched doorway. Above the cornice of the lower storey, there is a full-height round-arched recess supported by pilasters, topped with a modillion cornice and a pyramidal copper roof. Each floor has paired windows with chamfered stone lintels, and decorative brick panels are located below the windows and in the tympanum of the arched recess. Narrow privy towers are positioned on either side of the main tower, each featuring paired windows (round-arched on the ground floor) and segmental relieving arches over the windows on the first and second storeys. The flanking ranges on each side have an arcaded ground storey with round-arched windows that include keystones, while the upper floors are defined by pilasters above the cornice of the lower storey. The windows are 25-pane iron-framed with central opening lights and chamfered stone lintels, and there is corbelled brickwork above the upper windows. The building is topped with a stone cornice and parapet, and dormer windows serve as clerestory in the roof. At the rear, there is a single-storey structure that may have been a former boiler house, as indicated by a date on the rainwater head. Although few ancillary buildings remain, Waterloo Mill is a notable example of industrial architecture for the silk industry at the end of the 19th century.