Walter Edward Mills (7 November 1850 – 17 April 1910) was an English architect.
Mills was articled to the architect Henry Edward Cooper of Bloomsbury in 1868. He established his own independent practice in Banbury, Oxfordshire in about 1875,Brodie et al., 2001, page 185 where by 1881 he had premises at 13, High Street.
Mills served as architectural clerk to the agent for the Clifden Estates, for whom he completed Holdenby House in 1878. Mills designed a number of public buildings in mixed styles, usually neo-Jacobean.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 404 His extension of the Oxford Union was completed posthumously.
Mills was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1882.
Works Holdenby House, Holdenby, Northamptonshire: extension, 1877-78 St. Leonard's parish church, Grimsbury, Oxfordshire, 1890Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 444 St. Mary's parish church, Holwell, Oxfordshire: rebuilding, 1895Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 650 St. James' parish church, Sarsden, Oxfordshire: north transept and bellcote, 1896Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 752 Warwick Road Hospital, Banbury, Oxfordshire: hospital wing, late 19th centurySherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 438 Bovey Castle, Devon - manor house for Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden, 1907-8 St Hilda's College, Oxford: extension, 1909Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 245 Oxford Union, Oxford: second library, 1910-11 (with Thorpe)Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 273
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