Description

LEEDS

SE2634 KIRKSTALL ROAD
714-1/27/926 (South side)
01/11/91 Burley Mills: main range

GV II

Main range of worsted fulling, carding and scribbling mill.
1799, altered 1822, restored 1918. By James Graham. For the
firm of Wormald, Gott and Wormald with alterations 1822 for
Thomas Stansfield and Co and restoration after a fire in 1918.
Coursed squared gritstone, dressed stone to door surrounds and
quoins have light herring-bone tooling, grey slate and
asbestos roofs, ashlar bridge with brick and concrete parapet.
The range comprises the 3-storey, 15-window block spanning the
millrace with the access road along the east side carried on a
bridge of 2 wide and 1 narrow arches over the mill goit;
attached to the SW side a 1-and-a-half-storey square-plan
small annexe with, on the west side, the 2-storey, 4-window
former engine house.
Facade of 3-storey block: north gable end has central double
doors, cased on outside but original inside face visible (see
interior), voussoirs to wedge lintel, large quoins, 3 loading
doorways above, the top doorway having a solid lintel;
flanking tall windows in stone surrounds, 6-pane frames;
corner chimney left; south gable: 4-windows wide, doorway with
tie-stone jambs far right.
Left and right returns: large windows, most with 16-pane
frames, the central top 2 panes hinged, surrounds with
tie-stone jambs and projecting sills; stone gutter brackets,
gable copings, roof lights, ventilators to ridge and water
tanks at NW and SE corners.
South facade of annexe: central doorway with overlight flanked
by large blocked windows, narrow probably inserted window
above, gable coping. South facade of engine house: retains 4
tall round-arched openings with well-cut voussoirs on south
side, obscured by C20 lean-to; left return: stub of stack at
north end.
INTERIOR: 3-storey block: north doorway has plank doors with
strap hinges; original stone stairs to right of entrance,
brick window reveals, cast-iron columns and girders supporting
floors, C20 roof structure of closely spaced queen posts with
splayed braces and collars. Fire damage in former engine
house.
The main range is part of the important mill group which
includes the spinning shop, weaving sheds and drying house
(qv), the entrance range and cottages having been demolished

mid C20; the mill race weir and sluices to NW (qv) are also
part of this complex.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the partners Wormald and Gott built the first
woollen mill in Leeds at Bean Ing from 1792 (demolished). The
Burley (or Dobbie) mills were begun in 1799 for the processing
of long-fibred worsted wool from East Anglia into blankets.
Benjamin Gott's business moved to Armley Mills (qv) and by
1822 Burley was occupied by Thomas Stansfield and Co, worsted
manufacturers and stuff merchants. By 1867 the mill was also
used by a firm of flax spinners and from 1897 the buildings
were divided between several industries including a currier
(leather dresser). The main range was damaged by fire in 1918
and the roof probably dates from that period.
(RCHME Initial survey on Burley Mills; Ward MF (PhD thesis,
University of Leeds): Industrial devel'ment & location in
Leeds N of R Aire, 1775-1914: 1972-; Hudson P: The West Riding
Wool Textile Industry: 1975-: 180).

Listing NGR: SE2698134793

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655870

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)