Mill Buildings at Low Mills
MILL BUILDINGS AT LOW MILLS, LOW MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200162
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Buildings at Low Mills
- Statutory Address:
- MILL BUILDINGS AT LOW MILLS, LOW MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200162
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Buildings at Low Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL BUILDINGS AT LOW MILLS, LOW MILL LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILL BUILDINGS AT LOW MILLS, LOW MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Keighley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 06552 41165
Details
KEIGHLEY LOW MILL LANE SE 04 SE (west side) 5/153 Mill Building at Low Mills 12.2.79
GV 11*
Mill building. Late. C18. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 10 bays. Built on a north-south axis. Ground floor: wheel housing under voussoired round arch at left. Other openings altered, but 2 16-pane sash windows in plain stone surrounds with raised cills remain. 1st floor: casement windows in plain stone surrounds with raised cills; loading door inserted in bay 3. 2nd floor: band. Loading door on left. Casement windows with stone lintels and cills. Part of a complex of mill buildings, others now demolished, which was important in containing the first cotton mill in Keighley. The original mill building was begun by the Ramsdens of Halifax and completed by Clayton and Walshman who began cotton spinning in June 1780. The machinery was made under the direction of Sir Richard Arkwright. Since the cotton-spinning process was new to this area a number of employers were sent to Arkwright's works at Cromford, Derbyshire, to master the techniques involved. (Hodgson, pp 212-213). In the C19 the mill was converted to worsted. J Hodgson, Textile manufacture in Keighley, 1879.
Listing NGR: SE0655241165
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338250
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hodgson, J, Textile Manufacture in Keighley, (1879), 212-3
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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