Sollys Mill

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SU 9643 NE 12/176

GODALMING MILL LANE (south side) Sollys Mill

(formerly listed as Commercial building to north of Mill Lane Engineering)

26.3.90

II Former hosiery factory. Early 1870s. Painted brick in Flemish bond, partly on plinth of rubblestone with brick quoins and chamfered brick top course. Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, 8 x 2 bays.

Ground floor: bays divided by columns which support fascia board and cornice; three-light transomed small-pane windows, that to right bay bricked up. First and second floors: bays defined by pilasters; sixteen-pane windows to first floor, eight-pane windows above, all in reveals with projecting sills and segmental brick arches. Hipped roof with broad stack at left end.

Rear: on ground floor each bay has recess with tall window as front, the lower sections infilled (except to second window from left), upper windows as before; second bay from left has reinforced glass to lower windows and second floor fire door in former window; third bay from left has blocked ground and second floor windows and second floor fire door; to right of centre, two-storey pent-roofed outshut with first floor loading door and window, four-panel door, to right return and one storey outshut to left return.

Returns: blind ground floor except for segment-arched doorway to left return, narrow windows with flat brick arches above four-pane sashes to first floor, two-pane sashes to second floor.

This was an early steam-powered hosiery factory: the engine house and stack have now gone (John Janway pers-comm).

Listing NGR: SU9664043870