Building Facing Car Park at South East End of Thorp Arch Mill (premises of Blanella Limited
BUILDING FACING CAR PARK AT SOUTH EAST END OF THORP ARCH MILL (PREMISES OF BLANELLA LIMITED, BRIDGE FOOT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319990
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Building Facing Car Park at South East End of Thorp Arch Mill (premises of Blanella Limited
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING FACING CAR PARK AT SOUTH EAST END OF THORP ARCH MILL (PREMISES OF BLANELLA LIMITED, BRIDGE FOOT
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319990
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Building Facing Car Park at South East End of Thorp Arch Mill (premises of Blanella Limited
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING FACING CAR PARK AT SOUTH EAST END OF THORP ARCH MILL (PREMISES OF BLANELLA LIMITED, BRIDGE FOOT
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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:
- BUILDING FACING CAR PARK AT SOUTH EAST END OF THORP ARCH MILL (PREMISES OF BLANELLA LIMITED, BRIDGE FOOT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorp Arch
- National Grid Reference:
- SE4314945899
Details
SE 4245-4345
6/108
THORP ARCH LS23
BRIDGE FOOT
(west side, off)
Building facing car-park at south-east end of Thorp Arch Mill (premiss of Blanella Ltd)
GV
II
Water mill now part of factory. Late C17; raised C18, altered C20. Coursed,
squared magnesian limestone, Welsh slate and stone slate roofs. 2 storeys
with basement and attic, 3 cells; short, lower wing to rear right. Basement
(partly buried as a result of infilling) has 3 doorways: that to left has a
deep, chamfered lintel with triangular soffit; central doorway has deep C17
lintel cut out to form a shallow segmental arch and dated 1867; doorway to
right is chamfered and has basket-arched lintel. Set higher between the
doorways are boarded 3-light double-chamfered windows without their mullions.
1st floor: 2 casement windows beneath segmental arches; small window to far
right; double-chamfered, 2-light window without mullion on left. Above these
windows the walling is of later date; 2 half-dormers to the attic floor.
Rear: similar fenestration; to centre of wall is a corbelled C17 external
stack now capped off; wing on left has stone slate root. Left return:
blocked basement opening with wooden lintel; incomplete double-chamfered
window on right; C20 casement to gable beneath corniced C18 opening. Right
return: later external steps to a wide, chamfered and quoined doorway with
cambered lintel and raised keystone. High-level doorway gives access to
bridqe (not of special Interest) forming link to range of buildings to north-
east (q.v.).
Interior:central cell of basement (filled with debris at time of resurvey,
1987) has buried front windows; left cell houses water wheel with cast-iron
hub and remains of wooden spokes. Later floor and roof structures.
Built as a rape-seed oil mill and later used to manufacture paper and then
bobbins, Ralph Thoresby of Leeds notes in his diary of 1691 (Atkinson p.321)
that he rode with Mr. Ibbertson "to view the lately erected rape-mill at
Thorp Arch".
D. H. Atkinson,Ralph Thoresby : The Topographer. His Town and Times, Vol 1,
1885.
Listing NGR: SE4314945899
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342031
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Atkinson, D H, Ralph Thoresby: The Topographer His Town and Times, (1885), 321
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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