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Former Spinning Mill Ranges at Carr Mills

A Grade II Listed Building in Chapel Allerton, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8161 / 53°48'57"N

Longitude: -1.546 / 1°32'45"W

OS Eastings: 429988

OS Northings: 435630

OS Grid: SE299356

Mapcode National: GBR BJC.GT

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.7B2V

Plus Code: 9C5WRF83+CJ

Entry Name: Former Spinning Mill Ranges at Carr Mills

Listing Date: 5 August 1976

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255761

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465658

Also known as: Carr Mills Student Accommodation
Carr Mills Residences

ID on this website: 101255761

Location: Buslingthorpe, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS7

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Chapel Allerton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Woodhouse and Wrangthorn

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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LEEDS

SE33NW BUSLINGTHORPE LANE, Buslingthorpe
714-1/7/1294 (West side)
05/08/76 No.322
Former spinning mill ranges at Carr
Mills
(Formerly Listed as:
MEANWOOD, Buslingthorpe
No.322
Carr Mills, main building and
entrance building (No.136
Buslingthorpe Lane))

GV II

Spinning mill ranges, now light industrial units. 1810,
altered C19 and C20. For Abraham Rhodes. Coursed square
gritstone, thin courses, separately roofed in stone slates.
L-plan, 4+1 storeys and 14 and 8 windows long; a lower
3-storey extension at NE end. Plain openings with stone
lintels and sills, C20 casements.
INTERIOR: reputed to have structural features dating from
1810-1850 including cast-iron beams supporting stone flag
floors, the parabolic beams installed flange uppermost and
single span, the flanges bulbous in form indicating a correct
understanding of the bending moment across the span, and
intermediate joists set in sockets cast in the sides of the
beams.
Abraham Rhodes built Beech Grove House, warehouse and
workshops Beech Grove now part of the Leeds University campus
(qv) in 1799 and in 1810 built this mill at Woodhouse Carr,
continuing to rent the workshops at Beech Grove. In 1864 the
mill was taken over by Peter Laycock.
(Industrial Archaeology Review, X, 2, Spring 1988: Fitzgerald
RS: The Development of the Cast-iron frame in Textile Mills to
1850: 1988-: 134; Leeds University Press: Beresford M: Walks
Round Red Brick: Leeds: 1980-: 44; Thoresby Society
Publications, LX & LXI, 131 & 132: Beresford MW: East End,
West End. The Face of Leeds 1684-1842.: Leeds: 1988-: 325).



Listing NGR: SE2998835630

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