The Granary

The Granary is a former steam mill, now used as a warehouse, dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of stock brick with corrugated sheet roofing. The building comprises a square, four-storey and attic block, originally three by three bays, joined to a two-storey and attic block, originally three by six bays, forming an “L” shape on plan. The taller block faces the railway and features projecting vertical and horizontal brick bands defining each bay and storey, along with iron tie rods at the angles. Each storey has a central plank door with a segmental head and gates on the upper storeys. The attic has a smaller door opening onto a timber lucam with an ornamental bargeboarded head. The outer bays of the taller block contain three-light glazing bar casements with segmental heads; some original glazing bars remain. There are plank doors on the ground floor to the right, and two round-headed slit windows in the attic, above kneelers to the gable parapet. The left return has similar openings, with taller first-floor windows articulated by vertical brick bands and a projecting eaves course. The right return features three-light openings to the upper storey and an extruded stack with oversailing courses to a tall, tapering shaft topped with an oversailing cap. The rear elevation has three-light, segmental-headed casements, vertical bands, a horizontal band to the attic, doors flanking round-headed openings, and a parapet matching the front.

The attached, two-storey and attic block, projecting towards the railway, has a three-bay gable front. It features round-headed, traceried openings in the outer bays and doors on each storey in the centre bay, which are wider on the ground floor and narrower at the top. A projecting hoist beam is present, along with vertical bands and a parapet. The inner return has an entrance. The six-bay outer return is plain and divided by vertical bands. The rear of this block has taller openings in the outer bays, vertical bands, and a gable parapet.

Inside the taller block, two stout cast iron columns with moulded capitals and bases remain on the ground floor, along with an engine bed, likely for an oil engine. The upper storeys were not inspected. The lower block retains similar but smaller cast iron columns on both floors, arranged to articulate the three by six bays. The building was formerly known as Robinson’s Mill.