Vale Mills (Oldest Part Only)
VALE MILLS (OLDEST PART ONLY), VALE MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200761
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Vale Mills (Oldest Part Only)
- Statutory Address:
- VALE MILLS (OLDEST PART ONLY), VALE MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200761
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Vale Mills (Oldest Part Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALE MILLS (OLDEST PART ONLY), VALE 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:
- VALE MILLS (OLDEST PART ONLY), VALE 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:
- SE0373538257
Details
SE 0238 and SE 0338
18/275
KEIGHLEY
VALE MILL LANE
Lees
Vale Mills (oldest part only)
II
Cotton mill. Early C19. For John Greenwood and his Son (Hodgson, p219).
Coursed millstone grit, graduated Westmorland slate roof. 'T'-shaped block, the
trunk 3-storeyed, spanning the river and road, with an office block in the mill
yard at its head (south end) and 2-storeyed ranges running off to west and east.
The 3-storeyed range has a quoined, shouldered arch across the road, and a lower,
segmental arch with rusticated voussoirs and spandrels across river. Many
small-paned windows with stone lintels and continuous cill bands. Ashlar coping.
The Greenwoods also built here a row of cottages and a school (Hodgson, p 219).
They also worked at Airworth Mill, Aireworth Road (qv) (Ibid 218).
J Hodgson, Textile Manufacture in Keighley, 1879.
Listing NGR: SE0373538257
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hodgson, J, Textile Manufacture in Keighley, (1879), 219
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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