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Bank Mills B and D

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.7922 / 53°47'31"N

Longitude: -1.5302 / 1°31'48"W

OS Eastings: 431047

OS Northings: 432975

OS Grid: SE310329

Mapcode National: GBR BMN.VD

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.GYK7

Plus Code: 9C5WQFR9+VW

Entry Name: Bank Mills B and D

Listing Date: 6 November 1989

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375363

English Heritage Legacy ID: 466259

ID on this website: 101375363

Location: Steander, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Richmond Hill, Leeds

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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LEEDS

SE3132NW EAST STREET
714-1/82/165 (South West side)
06/11/89 Bank Mills 'B' and 'D'

GV II

2 flax mills. 1831-32, 1856 with additions 1888. 'B' mill by
John Clark of Edinburgh. Red brick with ashlar dressings,
slate roof of double pitch to 'B' mill. 'B' mill built
1831-32.
River frontage has to the west a tall square chimney stack
with ashlar base, now partly truncated. 6 storeys, 21 bays,
with continuous ashlar sill bands and partial ashlar parapet.
Each floor has 21 glazing bar casements, a few now blocked.
Eastern end has semicircular stair and hoist tower, which
projects above the parapet as a circular turret.
Attached to the south-east and masking the stair tower 'D'
mill added 1856. Also with continuous ashlar sill bands and
brick parapet with dentils. 4 storeys, 9 x 6 bays, each floor
on the river front having 9 glazing bar casements with
segmental brick heads, and each floor on the south-east having
6 glazing bar casements with evidence of the former mill
stream entrance below.
Added to the rear in 1888 a 12-bay , 5-storey wing with 12
large glazing bar casements to each floor, topped by a mansard
slate roof with a central gabled hoist dormer with blocked
door.
INTERIOR: 'B' mill: reputed to contain cylindrical cast-iron
columns and cast-in line shaftings, roof structure of wrought-
and cast-iron.
'B' mill was designed by John Clark of Edinburgh for Hives and
Atkinson; he had been employed by John Marshall at his
Marshall Street Mills (qv) and by John Wilkinson at Hunslet
Mill, Goodman Street (qv).


Listing NGR: SE3104732975

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