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SE3132 GOODMAN STREET, Hunslet 714-1/44/865 (North side) 10/01/86 No.21A Victoria Works range (Formerly Listed as: GOODMAN STREET, Hunslet Victoria Mill)

GV II

Part of flax mill complex. c1835-38. For WB Holdsworth. Red brick, English bond, slate roof, stone gable copings with turned-back kneelers. Rectangular range at right angle to street, 14 bays long and 3 bays wide with slightly projecting stair and toilet block at street gable left and a low engine house projection and chimney at rear (north) end. Doorway at centre of street gable has stone lintel and is reduced to a window; a tier of loading doors reduced to windows to left, segmental brick-arched windows to centre and right and to right return, blocked far right, inverted brick arches below those to ground floor; small rectangular windows to stair block. INTERIOR: not inspected but reputed to contain a cast-iron frame with cylindrical columns supporting inverted T-beams and fireproof floor construction. HISTORICAL NOTE: Holdsworth had a mill at Lands Court before moving to the open fields, probably owned by George Goodman, c1835; there were buildings on this site by 1840. By 1862 700 were employed and by 1888 the buildings were used by Titley and Co from Water Lane. In multiple occupation by early C20. (Connell EJ, University of Leeds (unpublished PhD thesis): Industrial Development in South Leeds, 1790-1914: 1975-).



Listing NGR: SE3138532137

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