Studley Mill, Principal Factory

Studley Mill, Principal Factory, was built in 1860 for Clarks by local builders Charles and Richard Gane. This large, four-storey brick building features stone cill bands, gutter corbels, and decorative window heads. It has eight bays by six on the lower floors and six bays by five on the top floor, with buttressing up to the third storey. The windows are obtuse headed, narrower, and doubled on the top floor. A stone eaves band runs along the hipped slate roof, which has a hoist tower and staircase at the north corner, polygonal to the northwest and with an additional storey. The hoist openings are also obtuse headed. A blind arcade on the northwest side has a cill band supported by rams' head brackets. There is a modillion cornice and band leading to a flat roof, which was previously pyramidal. The mill is part of a group that includes Nos. 50 to 58, a workshop at the rear of No. 58, the entrance screen to the Principal Factory, and the Handle House at Studley Mills.