Office Building With Italianate Tower, Former Linen Works, South Street

Mill complex featuring former office building, probably Robertson and Orchar, circa 1860-64 or 1874. Several additions to complex including 1932-3. Former mill works with prominent, integral, 2-storey, 3 x 5-bay piended roof former office building with advanced 3-stage Italianate tower to S (street elevation). Various other surrounding former mill buildings, including 8 saw-tooth weaving sheds to N.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: FORMER OFFICE BUILDING: squared and snecked rubble with raised, ashlar margins; smooth render to top stage of tower. Band course, eaves band, moulded cornice, blocking course. Round-arched window openings to upper storey. Ground floor to E, W and N adjoins other mill buildings, including former weaving shed.

Street elevation to S with piended roof tower to right with 2-leaf, timber panelled entrance door. Top stage with bi-partite, key-stoned, round-arched windows with stone mullions. Deep, dentilled eaves.

Some windows to upper storey with 10-pane glazing pattern with timber astragals. Other windows with small-pane glazing pattern. Some window openings boarded or glass broken. Wallhead stacks. Grey slates.