Mill Street Depot

Mill Street Depot is a railway goods depot that has been converted into offices and workshops. It was built between 1849 and 1852, with later alterations, for the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway and the London and North Western Railway. The structure is made of brick with ashlar dressings and features felt roofs.

The main two-storey range has a single-storey section under a double-span roof to the east and a basement beneath both. The bays are defined by pilaster strips. The two-storey range includes a top cornice, parapet, and coped gables, with the north elevation displaying nine bays. The paired segmental-headed windows, which are now blocked, have cogged impost bands. There are also two round-headed entrances that are blocked, first-floor panels, and two loading doors that are also blocked. The east end and south elevation are similar, with the south elevation featuring small late 19th-century and 20th-century additions. The entrances have paired timber doors, and some windows have been inserted.

The single-storey range has a nine-bay north elevation with blind round-headed arches that have imposts and keystones. The elliptical-headed entrance to the fourth bay is now blocked. The west end has a central entrance that is blocked with an inserted door, flanked by blind arches, with the left end having a sliding door and the right end blocked with an inserted window. The south elevation is similar to the north but has been significantly altered, with some bays featuring inserted girders and 20th-century infill beneath, along with some inserted windows.

The interior is well-preserved, with the basement originally serving as a bonded store, featuring segmental arches to cross walls and raking buttresses to the side walls. The two-storey range includes flanged round iron columns, a crane, and two hydraulic ramps. The first floor has an original partitioned office, and the iron roof trusses have diagonal struts and tie bars. The single-storey range has a crane by a lower channel to the north, round iron columns, and timber roof trusses made of collar and tie beams with upper king posts, along with transverse beams linking the tie beams. This building is a good and well-preserved example of an early railway goods depot.