Description

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5111
SE 13 SW
8/1083

THORNTON ROAD BD8.
Two parallel blocks (5-storey to road, 6-storey to rear) with chimney between and office block and lodge to right of entrance at Whetley Mills (D Illingworth and Sons Mills)

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1865, a fine mill complex consisting of 2 parallel ranges, designed by
Milnes and France with one of the finest extant mill chimneys in Bradford.
Sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings. Five-storey road block and 6 to rear
range. Long ranges of close set ashlar lintel windows on sill bands, round
arched on ground floor. Rusticated lower ground floor. Mutule eaves cornices.
Slate roofs with coped gable ends with oculi. The taller rear range has stair
turrets to east end and is set on massive square plinth. Between both ranges is the
very tall octagonal mill chimney of sandstone "brick" with giant console
brackets to cornice capping and deep scalloped blocking course. To the right of
entrance gates is a lodge and set back 2-storey office range with archivolt
segmental arched windows and impost string. Deep bracketed eaves cornice.

Listing NGR: SE1474333649

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600561

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2