The property comprises a detached five storey cotton mill and a substantial single storey warehouse facility. The mill was originally built in 1905 named Fir Mill and was subsequently renamed Vernon Works in 1959 and the building was extended in 1962 1967 and 1977 to produce extensive single storey accommodation to the north of the main mill.
The original mill is of conventional construction built with solid brick walls and steel framework supported on cast iron columns with brick arch ceilings carrying solid concrete and timber deck floors. The main roof is multiple pitch, hipped and slate covered bounded by brick built parapet walls incorporating cast iron valley gutters discharging to PVC downspouts.
The single storey extension is predominantly of steel framed construction with solid concrete floors, brick built walls and corrugated asbestos cement roofing part over clad with PVC coated steel cladding. The property currently provides workshop warehouse accommodation on the lower ground, ground, first, second and third floors together with ancillary offices, canteen and toilets, etc
Externally there is a surfaced yard and access road around the perimeter of the premises together with parking and dock level loading bays to the rear single storey extension and also covered dock loading to the front of the main mill building Site level drive in access is also available.
