Bank Mills C and Attached Tow Warehouse
BANK MILLS C AND ATTACHED TOW WAREHOUSE, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375364
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Bank Mills C and Attached Tow Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- BANK MILLS C AND ATTACHED TOW WAREHOUSE, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375364
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Bank Mills C and Attached Tow Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK MILLS C AND ATTACHED TOW WAREHOUSE, EAST STREET
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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:
- BANK MILLS C AND ATTACHED TOW WAREHOUSE, 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:
- SE 31147 32901
Details
LEEDS
SE3132NW EAST STREET 714-1/82/166 (South West side) 06/11/89 Bank Mills 'C' and attached tow warehouse (Formerly Listed as: EAST STREET Bank Mills 'C' and attached yarn warehouse and tow warehouse)
GV II
Flax mill/warehouse and attached tow warehouse. 1832-33. By John Clark of Edinburgh. For Hives and Atkinson. Red brick with ashlar dressings and double-pitched hipped slate roofs. 'C' mill, 5 storeys to street and 6 storeys to rear, 16 bays, with continuous ashlar sill bands, ashlar parapet and hipped slate roof. Ground floor has off-centre entrance doorway, with double-plank door and overlight and 2 further windows beyond. Partly truncated chimney stack. Above each floor has 16 glazing-bar windows. Beyond to the left the tow warehouse, 5 storeys, 8 bays with single-bay link with 3 small windows to each floor. Tow warehouse has continuous ashlar sill bands and ashlar parapet. To left a single glazing-bar window, then a single door with overlight and 3 similar windows, a large cart entrance with double plank doors and a blocked window beyond. Above each floor has 8 glazing bar windows. River frontage: 16-bay, 6-storey mill building with 3-bay boiler-house entrance to left with 2 cast-iron columns supporting ashlar lintels and beyond 13 round-headed windows, some now blocked. Upper windows have continuous ashlar sill bands. Above each floor has 16 glazing bar windows. Beyond again 7-storey, 6-bay tow warehouse with central loading doorway flanked by 3 round-headed windows. Above each floor has central loft doorway flanked by 3 glazing-bar windows. INTERIOR: the western end of the main building contained the boiler and engine houses; it is shown in the 1882 sale plan of the complex, and is reputed to have giant cast-iron cylindrical columns approx 0.3m in diameter to ground floor. A tramway extended from the tow warehouse along the riverside to the 'B' and 'D' mills (qv). John Clark also designed mill buildings for John Marshall at Marshall Street and John Wilkinson at Hunslet Mill, Goodman Street (qqv). Tow is the coarse or broken part of the flax.
Listing NGR: SE3114732901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466260
- 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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