Description

LEEDS

SE3132NW EAST STREET
714-1/82/166 (South West side)
06/11/89 Bank Mills 'C' and attached tow
warehouse
(Formerly Listed as:
EAST STREET
Bank Mills 'C' and attached yarn
warehouse and tow warehouse)

GV II

Flax mill/warehouse and attached tow warehouse. 1832-33. By
John Clark of Edinburgh. For Hives and Atkinson.
Red brick with ashlar dressings and double-pitched hipped
slate roofs.
'C' mill, 5 storeys to street and 6 storeys to rear, 16 bays,
with continuous ashlar sill bands, ashlar parapet and hipped
slate roof. Ground floor has off-centre entrance doorway, with
double-plank door and overlight and 2 further windows beyond.
Partly truncated chimney stack. Above each floor has 16
glazing-bar windows. Beyond to the left the tow warehouse, 5
storeys, 8 bays with single-bay link with 3 small windows to
each floor. Tow warehouse has continuous ashlar sill bands and
ashlar parapet. To left a single glazing-bar window, then a
single door with overlight and 3 similar windows, a large cart
entrance with double plank doors and a blocked window beyond.
Above each floor has 8 glazing bar windows.
River frontage: 16-bay, 6-storey mill building with 3-bay
boiler-house entrance to left with 2 cast-iron columns
supporting ashlar lintels and beyond 13 round-headed windows,
some now blocked. Upper windows have continuous ashlar sill
bands. Above each floor has 16 glazing bar windows. Beyond
again 7-storey, 6-bay tow warehouse with central loading
doorway flanked by 3 round-headed windows. Above each floor
has central loft doorway flanked by 3 glazing-bar windows.
INTERIOR: the western end of the main building contained the
boiler and engine houses; it is shown in the 1882 sale plan of
the complex, and is reputed to have giant cast-iron
cylindrical columns approx 0.3m in diameter to ground floor.
A tramway extended from the tow warehouse along the riverside
to the 'B' and 'D' mills (qv). John Clark also designed mill
buildings for John Marshall at Marshall Street and John
Wilkinson at Hunslet Mill, Goodman Street (qqv). Tow is the
coarse or broken part of the flax.

Listing NGR: SE3114732901

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656165

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  For the Record
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)