Main Block to Highgate Mills and Portal Between Number 74 Highgate Road and Number 2 Back Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Mill.
Main Block to Highgate Mills and Portal Between Number 74 Highgate Road and Number 2 Back Lane
- WRENN ID
- silver-grate-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford South MP: Judith Cummins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Mill
- OS grid reference
- SE 121 307
- Coordinates
- 53.77275, -1.81748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The main block of Highgate Mills is a modest spinning mill built in the early to mid 19th century. It is set back in a yard with a large ashlar portal dated 1865 at the road line, which shares design features with the portals at the nearby former Bank Top Mills on Beacon Road. The portal has rustication incorporated into a semi-circular arch that rises from an impost string, with a keystone featuring carved bearded heads. It also has a projecting moulded cornice and a blocking course with a crested date panel. The mill itself is constructed of sandstone "brick" and has three storeys, with a closely set range of 16 coupled voussoir arched windows on each floor. At the east end, there are windows with a dividing pier inscribed with the years 1851 and 1862. Additionally, there is a square section tapered chimney stack built into the north-east corner.
Local climate
Main Block to Highgate Mills and Portal Between Number 74 Highgate Road and Number 2 Back Lane sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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