BLACK DYKE MILLS (THE PRINCIPAL 5 AND 4 STOREY BLOCKS TO SOUTH OF COMPLEX)

BLACK DYKE MILLS (THE PRINCIPAL 5 AND 4 STOREY BLOCKS TO SOUTH OF COMPLEX), HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283342
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: BLACK DYKE MILLS (THE PRINCIPAL 5 AND 4 STOREY BLOCKS TO SOUTH OF COMPLEX)
Statutory Address:: BLACK DYKE MILLS (THE PRINCIPAL 5 AND 4 STOREY BLOCKS TO SOUTH OF COMPLEX), HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283342
Date first listed:: 07-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: BLACK DYKE MILLS (THE PRINCIPAL 5 AND 4 STOREY BLOCKS TO SOUTH OF COMPLEX)
Statutory Address 1:: BLACK DYKE MILLS (THE PRINCIPAL 5 AND 4 STOREY BLOCKS TO SOUTH OF COMPLEX), HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BLACK DYKE MILLS (THE PRINCIPAL 5 AND 4 STOREY BLOCKS TO SOUTH OF COMPLEX), HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE1041130125

Details

SE13SW QUEENSBURY HIGH STREET (south side) Queensbury.

5/28 Black Dyke Mills, (the principal 5-and 4-storey blocks to south of complex).

GV II

Mill buildings. East part built between 1842 and 1848, extension to west between 1848 and 1851, and the slightly larger block to far west between 1854 and 1868. For John Foster and Son. Hammer-dressed stone. Stone slate roofs. East block and extension 5 storeys, west block 4 storeys, both with basement and attic. South side: east block of 15 bays and industrial 6-pane casements, the centre 5 bays breaking forward slightly. 'The 9-bay extension to left is similar and has a rounded stair and hoist tower to right which rises above eaves and has pyramidal roof. The later block to left is slightly taller and wider and has 27 bays of similar casements and one bay of loading doors surmounted by a small triangular pediment. To right is a round-arched carriageway with alternate, rusticated quoins and voussoirs. Also, towards the right end is a square tower with pyramidal roof and round-arched lights in archivolted groups of 3 and 2. Dentil eaves cornice and roof lights to both blocks. North side similar but with some later additions. West gable end of 4 bays with central square projecting tower with small round-arched lights and pyramidal roof. Single-storey sheds on north side not included in the item. E. M. Sigsworth, Black Dyke Mills, A History, 1958

Listing NGR: SE1041130125

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Legacy System number:: 337402
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Sigsworth, E M, Black Dyke Mills A History, (1958)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.