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Latitude: 53.7594 / 53°45'33"N
Longitude: -1.7922 / 1°47'31"W
OS Eastings: 413799
OS Northings: 429247
OS Grid: SE137292
Mapcode National: GBR J8Y.RX
Mapcode Global: WHC9G.FRTV
Plus Code: 9C5WQ655+Q4
Entry Name: Main Building to South at Buttershaw Mill, Fronting Road
Listing Date: 14 March 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1133118
English Heritage Legacy ID: 336522
ID on this website: 101133118
Location: Beck Hill, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD6
County: Bradford
Electoral Ward/Division: Royds
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bradford
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Wibsey, St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Mill building
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5111 HALIFAX ROAD
Buttershaw BD6
Main Building to south at Buttershaw
Mill, fronting road
SE 12 NW 11/575 14.3.83
II
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Set well back from the road in an unusually open site, Buttershaw Mill is a virtually
unaltered example of a mid C19 large worsted mill. It was built by the firm of
S Bottomley and Brothers 1851-52, who first set up business in self employing hand
loom weavers, later moving to Brighouse and then to Low Moor where they became
established in the worsted trade. The firm subsequently expanded into alpaca and
mohair. The plain 4-storey and attic spinning mill is built of sandstone "brick"
with a long range of 22 marginal glazed, thin linteled, windows on ashlar sill bands.
At the south-west corner is an ornate stair tower with 2 arched lights to each face
and similar openings to the crowning belvedere with pyramidal lead roof and decorated
iron weathervane. Slate roof with coped gable ends, corbel brackets to eaves.
Linking the mill proper with the low parapeted range of the weaving shed, is the
2½-storey engine house surmounted by a triangular pediment; 2 tall round headed first
floor windows in grooved ashlar surrounds and 2 smaller ones on ground floor with
linking impost string. The rear elevation of the spinning mill has a bowed stair
tower to centre. Internally a central row of cast iron columns support timber cross
beams. The chimney stack to the north of mill has been lopped.
Listing NGR: SE1379929247
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