Wellington Mill

Wellington Mill is a silk mill dated 1853, with later extensions from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was built for Thomas Whittles and features a brick construction with a slate roof. The main manufacturing block is four storeys high and has a 14-window range, with a slightly advanced central pediment that occupies four bays. There is a doorway set in a round-arched painted stone architrave towards the right side of the elevation. The building has iron-framed windows with stone cills and flat-arched brick heads, and stone copings adorn the gables and pediment, which displays the mill's name in a painted stone panel at the apex. A projecting privy tower is located on the rear elevation. To the east of the main range is a later extension, possibly from around 1860, also made of brick with a slate roof, which is three storeys high and has a three-window range. This extension adjoins another range originally built around 1860 but extensively reconstructed around 1950, retaining the roof structure and gable walls, including a rear stair-turret, while the side walls and internal structure were rebuilt. The original gable wall facing the street is four storeys tall with a four-window range and a doorway to the left. At the rear of the main mill range are gabled engine and boiler houses, along with a tapering octagonal chimney. There are also a series of early 20th-century dyeing rooms located at the rear. Inside the main mill block, the internal structure features transverse timber beams with no intermediate supports.