Two 3 Storey Blocks and A Chimney Stack to Try Mills (Thornton Spinning Company) Opposite Number 244 and Part of Number 254 Thornton Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Worsted mill. 7 related planning applications.
Two 3 Storey Blocks and A Chimney Stack to Try Mills (Thornton Spinning Company) Opposite Number 244 and Part of Number 254 Thornton Road
- WRENN ID
- solitary-granite-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Worsted mill
- Address
- Two 3 Storey Blocks and A Chimney Stack to Try Mills (Thornton Spinning Company) Opposite Number 244 and Part of Number 254 Thornton Road, Thornton Road Bd8, BD1 2JS
- OS grid reference
- SE 152 334
- Coordinates
- 53.7969, -1.77003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building consists of two three-storey blocks and a chimney stack belonging to Try Mills, part of the Thornton Spinning Company, located opposite number 244 and part of number 254 Thornton Road. It was constructed around 1850-1860 as a worsted mill. The block facing the road features three storeys, a basement, and an attic storey, built from sandstone "brick" with ashlar sill bands and spaced dentils along the eaves of a hipped slate roof. There are fifteen windows, closely set on the left side, with the second-floor windows featuring aprons and rounded arches. The attic storey has small square windows. The centre of the ground floor includes a semi-circular waggon arch with ashlar voussoirs. The rear block also has three storeys and a basement, displaying similar architectural details, and is topped with an octagonal, cornice-capped sandstone "brick" chimney.
Local climate
Two 3 Storey Blocks and A Chimney Stack to Try Mills (Thornton Spinning Company) Opposite Number 244 and Part of Number 254 Thornton Road 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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