Carding And Combing Shed At Oats Royd Mill Including Roadside Wall With Gateway

SOWERBY BRIDGE DEAN HOUSE LANE SE 0226 & SE 0326 (east side, off), 4/163 Luddenden Carding and Combing shed at Oats Royd Mill including roadside wall with gateway GV II Carding and combing shed including roadside wall with gateway. Gateway dated 1885. For John Murgatroyd & Sons. Coursed squared stone and ashlar roof with Welsh slate and glass. Single tall storey, 17 bays, the west wall forming roadside wall with gateway at north end. East front: mid-height band; 4 inserted windows above; plain gutter brackets; the 12 left-hand bays have rainwater spouts between them and the roof is ridged over each bay, being glazed on the north side; the right-hand bays have parapet masking a flat roof. West (roadside) front: wall is approximately 3 metres high with triangular section coping, ramped up on either side of taller, truncated, raised ashlar panel. In base of wall are blocked quoined rectangular openings with deep lintels, giving onto the combing shed, and at a height of approx- imately ½ metre a series of patterned tiled vents. Rusticated elliptical-arched gateway on left has spiked panelled double door, tall dated ashlar surround, and entablature with modillion cornice. A ground plan of the mill complex made in 1898 shows that this building was use for carding and combing. Included for group value. Murgatroyds: ground plan 1898 (674) in the collection of papers on John Murgatroyd and Sons, Oats Royd, 1728-1892 (JM), Claderdale archives.

Listing NGR: SE0397226551