Albion Mill

LEEK

SJ9856SW ALBION STREET 611-1/6/10 (North side) 13/04/51 Albion Mill (Formerly Listed as: ALBION STREET Albion Silk Mills)

GV II

Silk mill. Now in use as animal feed mill. c1815, Albion Street range extended to SW by a further range dated 1887 Flemish bond brickwork with blue headers, plain-tiled roof. Albion Street range red brick with blue brick and stone dressings. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 15-window range, with doorway in 4th bay from right. Reeded doorcase and plain fanlight. Windows all have stone cills and flat lintels; 24-pane sash windows to first floor, 16-pane sashes above. Some cast-iron fixed light windows (especially in King Street return) may be the original window form. Lower windows and many upper windows boarded over. Bell cupola with ogee leaded roof carried turned baluster supports to centre. Chimney in rear angle, a square-section base and cylindrical shaft with moulded cap. Return to King Street: 3-window range, then 2-storeyed block incorporating entrance to rear yard. Archway with stone voussoirs, and wide window boarded over above. Stone quoins to angles of ground floor only. Albion Street; 2 storeys, 6-window range with round-arched doorway with fanlight over to the left (dated in the keystone of the arch); Segmentally-arched lower windows with stone keys, and round-arched upper windows. Blue brick hoodmoulds and stone cills. 2 louvres in the roof. This extension itself extended soon after building, with angled corner and return to Spencer Avenue, comprising a 4-window range in a similar style. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ9835056143