Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney
Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney, Bradford Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244729
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney
- Statutory Address:
- Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney, Bradford Road
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244729
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney, Bradford Road
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:
- Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney, Bradford Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2976425729
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 April 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
SE 22 NE
1166/2/10002
MORLEY
BRADFORD ROAD (northeast side)
Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney
II
Steam powered worsted spinning mill and attached engine house and chimney. 1912-13, with minor late C20 alterations. Built for Thomas Ambler & Sons by the Yorkshire Hennebique Construction Co Ltd. Reinforced concrete with brick infill and a flat cement and bitumen roof. Two storey over basement. Three bays by seventeen bays with a four storey tower at the centre of the north west side. Each bay has three windows with brick dividing piers. Curved and wavy concrete parapet. Main street front to south west has nine three-light casement windows. Upper two floors also have nine nine-light windows, the lower brick panels have attached lettering reading:- THOMAS AMBLER INTERNATIONAL FINE WORSTED SPINNERS. South east front has taking-in doors to left on all three floors. Attached to centre two storey engine house, boiler house and economizer clad in brick with similar curved parapets, truncated circular brick stack attached. North-west facade seventeen bays with central two bays masked by four storey tower housing rope race.
INTERIOR: has open floor areas with brick walls defining central rope race. Two rows of concrete piers supporting cross beams and concrete floors. This fine example of a textile mill constructed by the very latest reinforced concrete system, is the best preserved and earliest example of its type to survive in Yorkshire.
Listing NGR: SE2976425729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472923
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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