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former hosiery mill dating back to 1889 has been restored into luxury apartments as part of a regenerative canalside development in Loughborough that restored original features obscured by a 1980s office conversion. Designed by HSSP Architects, the
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Victorian building – once a historic factory that supplied garments to the Royal Family – heavily influenced the final project’s aesthetic. The team retained the building’s brick fabric while incorporating modern interventions and ecological additions. From the exposed brickwork and detailing, to the original iron, oak and bow
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string beams, The Mill carefully weaves old elements with the sensitive additions of a new wing at one end of the site, wrapped around the mill’s once isolated chimney, and two new storeys at roof level. Forming the lobby for the apartments at ground floor and an “iconic” entryway into the building, the retained and restored chimney has been as carefully blended with the new elements as all of the existing building’s features – but not without multiple design and engineering challenges at every stage.
Despite tackling these barriers, the first phase has now been finished successfully to
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