Home Mills Main Block

Home Mills Main Block is a four-storey mill building constructed around 1862-1863, designed by Charles Underwood of Clifton. The building features a stone plinth with eight bays on the left and three bays on the right. The ground floor is made of ashlar stone, while the upper floors are constructed of brick, accented with brick-sized Bath stone quoins and alternating voussoirs above the first and second floor windows. There are stone cill bands, which return as stone courses over the corner and dividing piers, as well as stone courses just below the impost level and beneath the coping. The windows have segmental heads with flat hipped voussoir arches, and the cast iron casement grids include knop joints. The ground floor windows are set in recessed reveals, while some second and third floor windows have concrete lintels due to a fire in 1931. The doorway is located in the fourth bay from the left. At the east end, a three-bay block projects one bay and follows the same general design. Originally, the building had five storeys, with each range of windows set in giant arched recesses, but it was reduced after the 1931 fire, leaving wall strips. The pediments on the projecting wings at the east end and the decorative top of the stair tower on the north side were removed during this alteration. The listed mills in Court Street form an industrial group with Home Mill Buildings, Castle Factory, and The Chapel, which serves as the offices of Samuel Salter and Co Ltd.