Description

SE3132NW
714-1/82/164
06/11/89

LEEDS
EAST STREET
(South West side)
No.76
Yarn warehouse
(Formerly Listed as:
EAST STREET
Bank Mills 'C' and attached yarn warehouse and tow warehouse)

GV
II

Yarn warehouse, now industrial units. 1824, altered C19. By
John Clark, architect. For Hives and Atkinson. Red brick,
corrugated asbestos roof.
A rectangular block with lower link building attached to
north-west end of Bank Mills 'C' (qv).
Street front: 3 storeys, 7 bays, with 6 blocked windows and to
the right a large doorway with painted rusticated surround and
double panel doors; 7 glazing bar windows to each upper floor.
Link-building left of 2 storeys, large cart entrance to ground
floor and 2 casements above.
River front: 4 storeys, 7 bays with central doorway, double
plank doors flanked on either side by 3 casement windows with
inverted brick arches below; central loft doorway reduced to
3-light casement and flanking windows to upper floors; ashlar
blocks at floor levels. Link building: 3 storeys, 3 bays.
INTERIOR: the yarn warehouse reputed to contain slender solid
cast-iron columns, some with cast-in twin corbels, inverted
cast-iron T-beams, jack arches.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the site was first developed by Thomas Lloyd
of Armley between 1792 and 1823 when he sold to Hives and
Atkinson who redeveloped the buildings as one of the country's
largest flax spinning concerns. The earliest surviving
building in the Bank Mills complex; Hives and Atkinson
previously worked with John Marshall at Marshall Mills,
Marshall Street (qv). John Clark also designed John
Wilkinson's Hunslet Mill, Goodman Street (qv).
(Industrial Archaeology Review, Spring 1988: Fitzgerald, R:
Development of cast-iron frames in textile mills to 1850:
142).

Listing NGR: SE3111632950

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656163

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