Details
LEEDS
SE2633 STANNINGLEY ROAD, Armley
714-1/32/496 (South side)
Winker Green Mill, reservoir dams
and linking walls
II
Scribbling and fulling mill with boundary walls. 1825-50 with
addition 1871-89. For the firm of William Eyres and Sons,
(Benjamin, William, Samuel and Joseph), clothiers. Coursed
squared gritstone rubble and brick on stone foundations, slate
roofs.
The 4 surviving buildings comprise the entrance block, mill
range, south workshop and north weaving shed, plus 3 reservoir
dams and linking walls.
Entrance block: stone ground floor, brick above; 3 storeys, 11
first-floor windows, one blocked: slightly cambered brick
arches, small-pane frame to 2nd floor far right; entrance
passage with round arch of rusticated stone voussoirs,
pedestrian door to right; no ground-floor fenestration,
originally extended much further to right, (the range was over
91m long and contained offices and warehousing).
Mill range: 4 storeys, 19 bays with added 6-bay similar range
at east end; some stone to ground floor, the remainder brick,
stone lintels to ground-floor openings, elsewhere cambered
brick arches; moulded cornice, scroll kneelers to west gable,
rainwater heads dated 1833; includes remains of earlier engine
house, 2nd engine house of 2 storeys, stair tower with
taking-in doors on south side, chimney at NE corner of brick
with stone band, square base, octagonal shaft, top missing,
water-control mechanism on north side of building (site of
reservoir).
South workshop: stone built throughout, 4 storeys, 10
first-floor windows on north side only, no fenestration to
ground and first floors on south side, 2-light windows, plain
sills and lintels, flat-faced mullions, north side ground
floor, one window with small-pane frames, wide doorway in
plain stone surround far right, cast-iron pulley bracket
attached to wall nearby, taking in doors to left of centre.
North weaving shed: added 1871-1889 near north side of mill,
west end; stone west wall, the rest brick, trapezoidal in
plan, single-storey, top lights.
INTERIOR: not seen but recorded in detail by RCHME and
includes working floors of traditional construction, timber
beams and cast-iron columns; drying floors over the boiler
house have pierced cast-iron plates carried on cast-iron
framework (see report).
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: boundary wall approx 1.5m high and 70m
long, extends along road edge on north side of the mill
ground, rounded coping stones; probably incorporates part of
the front wall of the originally much longer entrance range.
A rare example of one of the earliest phases of the factory
system used for the production of cloth, several processes of
textile manufacture being practised on the premises. The lack
of fenestration on the outer walls indicates the need for
security at a time when new methods and machines were
jealously guarded by mill owners. The Eyres also built housing
for their employees close to the mill
(RCHME Yorkshire Textile Mills Survey: Winker Green Mills,
Armley, Leeds (M.98): 1987-).
Listing NGR: SE2697633689
