Yarn Warehouse
YARN WAREHOUSE, 76, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375362
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Yarn Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- YARN WAREHOUSE, 76, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375362
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Yarn Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- YARN WAREHOUSE, 76, EAST STREET
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:
- YARN WAREHOUSE, 76, EAST STREET
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:
- SE3111632950
Details
SE3132NW
714-1/82/164
06/11/89
LEEDS
EAST STREET
(South West side)
No.76
Yarn warehouse
(Formerly Listed as:
EAST STREET
Bank Mills 'C' and attached yarn warehouse and tow warehouse)
GV
II
Yarn warehouse, now industrial units. 1824, altered C19. By
John Clark, architect. For Hives and Atkinson. Red brick,
corrugated asbestos roof.
A rectangular block with lower link building attached to
north-west end of Bank Mills 'C' (qv).
Street front: 3 storeys, 7 bays, with 6 blocked windows and to
the right a large doorway with painted rusticated surround and
double panel doors; 7 glazing bar windows to each upper floor.
Link-building left of 2 storeys, large cart entrance to ground
floor and 2 casements above.
River front: 4 storeys, 7 bays with central doorway, double
plank doors flanked on either side by 3 casement windows with
inverted brick arches below; central loft doorway reduced to
3-light casement and flanking windows to upper floors; ashlar
blocks at floor levels. Link building: 3 storeys, 3 bays.
INTERIOR: the yarn warehouse reputed to contain slender solid
cast-iron columns, some with cast-in twin corbels, inverted
cast-iron T-beams, jack arches.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the site was first developed by Thomas Lloyd
of Armley between 1792 and 1823 when he sold to Hives and
Atkinson who redeveloped the buildings as one of the country's
largest flax spinning concerns. The earliest surviving
building in the Bank Mills complex; Hives and Atkinson
previously worked with John Marshall at Marshall Mills,
Marshall Street (qv). John Clark also designed John
Wilkinson's Hunslet Mill, Goodman Street (qv).
(Industrial Archaeology Review, Spring 1988: Fitzgerald, R:
Development of cast-iron frames in textile mills to 1850:
142).
Listing NGR: SE3111632950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466258
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fitzgerald, R, Industrial Archaeology Review in The Development of the Cast Iron Frame in Textile Mills to 1850, (1988), 142
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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