12, Haywood Street

No. 12 Haywood Street is a silk mill built around 1876, possibly for H.D. Bayliss, and designed by William Sugden. The building is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof, showcasing a classical style with Lombardic detailing.

The exterior has a gabled front facing Haywood Street, presenting a four-storey structure with a three-window range. The central doorway is flanked by flat-arched windows on the ground floor, while the first-floor windows have cambered heads. Above, there are round-arched arcaded windows, with flat-arched upper-floor windows on either side of a tall central round-arched window. Pilasters are corbelled out on each side, supporting a squared bell-cote at the gable apex. To the right, there is a possible privy tower with a hipped roof.

On the Shoobridge Street side, the building features a ten-window range, with three closely spaced windows on the left and a doorway on the ground floor, which may indicate the location of a staircase. The ground-floor windows have cambered heads, while the upper windows are round-arched, all with stone cills. A heavily projecting arcaded corbel table separates the upper storey, which has flat lintels over the windows. All windows retain cast-iron glazing with small central opening lights. A detached square-section stack with a heavily moulded cap is located towards the rear. There is also a small building with a hipped roof at the rear, likely the original engine house, which may have served the adjacent former engineering works. The interior has not been inspected.