Description

LEEDS

SE2734 KIRKSTALL ROAD
714-1/28/927 (South side (off))
01/11/91 Dryhouse and parallel range at
Burley Mills

GV II

Dryhouse and additional parallel ranges. c1806 and later. For
the firm of Wormald, Gott and Wormald and later for Thomas
Stansfield and Co., worsted manufacturers. Coursed soft yellow
sandstone, stone slate roof hipped at east end to dryhouse,
squared grey gritstone and slate roofs to added parallel
ranges; gable copings. Single-storey throughout, the dryhouse
built parallel to the tail race of the mill, 9 windows long,
the west end an addition.
Windows have tie-stone jambs, C20 frames; doorway in west end
has edge-tooled tie-stone jambs. 3 windows on north side, east
end, the remainder obscured by added range which has 2 blocked
segmental-arched wide doorways at west end and C20 doorways
and windows on north and east sides.
INTERIOR: the dryhouse range north wall is removed, brick and
steel columns support former eaves; roof structure of 12
trusses, tie beams with queen posts clasping collar, 2 tiers
of purlins, trusses 4, 7 and 11 are king post construction,
the base of the king posts bolted through the tie beam,
similar trusses to parallel range.
Records show that in 1805-06 'Gott's dryhouse and cottages'
and the mill entrance were being built at Burley (Hudson,
p.180). This range is likely to be the one referred to as it
is similar to the dryhouse at Armley Mills, Canal Road (qv).
In the early C19 such buildings were replacing the extensive
tenter fields where woven fabrics were stretched to dry. The
covered sheds were used to dry the raw wool or the woven
fabric, heat from stoves possibly being used initially. This
example is the earliest yet known and by the mid C19 the
tentering machine was developed (C Giles, pers.comm.).
Part of the important Burley mill group, see main range (qv)
for historical information.
(Hudson P: W Riding Wool Textile Industry: business records,
16th-20th C: 1975-: 180).

Listing NGR: SE2701234808

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655871

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