Victoria Mill and associated mill chimney

This is a steam-powered corn mill, built in 1847 and later used as a paper mill. From 1988, it was converted into domestic apartments. The building is constructed of rock-faced stone ashlar with pecked and margined quoins, and has a slate roof.

The mill comprises a parallel pair of four-bay wide, gabled ranges, forming a single block with an H-shaped roof. The main block is five storeys and has an attic, extending seven bays deep. A single-bay, four-storey lean-to extension is attached to the west side, with a tall round arched window facing the canal to the north, suggesting its original use as an engine house. Two squat chimney stacks without pots rise from the ridge line junctions of the H-shaped roof. The gable ends of the main block are raised and coped, with broad, thin, corniced chimney stacks rising from the central pair of bays to each gable. The north gable stacks, facing the canal, project slightly and are quoined, with a central taking-in door to each floor, flanked by windows. The southern gables have inscriptions “WW” and “1847” at their peaks, and the window openings in the second and seventh bays have been enlarged into doorways leading to small balconies. Window openings are regular and unadorned, with replacement joinery throughout except on the ground floor. Original iron-framed multi-paned windows remain on the ground floor, now acting as security grills to the ground floor car park. Two inserted stone-built archways provide access to the car park, and a modern bridge provides apartment access to the centre of the south elevation at first floor level.

The interior has been reordered and subdivided to create residential apartments with car parking on the ground floor. A number of cast iron pillars and exposed timber beams have been retained in both shared circulation spaces and within individual apartments. The attic apartments, which are largely open plan, retain exposed original roof timbers, including purlins and attic trusses. These features are considered to be of special interest.

The modern inserted stud partitions, staircases and fittings of the residential apartments and shared circulation spaces are excluded from the listing.

Adjacent to the canal tow-path to the west of the mill stands a detached mill chimney constructed of rock-faced stone ashlar with an octagonal cross section rising from a square base. The chimney is at least 4 metres higher than the mill.