Carding and Combing Shed at Oats Royd Mill Including Roadside Wall with Gateway

The carding and combing shed at Oats Royd Mill, including the roadside wall with gateway, was built in 1885 for John Murgatroyd & Sons. It features coursed squared stone and an ashlar roof covered with Welsh slate and glass. The building is a single tall storey with 17 bays, and the west wall serves as the roadside wall, which has a gateway at the north end.

The east front has a mid-height band and four inserted windows above, with plain gutter brackets. The left-hand twelve 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 a parapet that masks a flat roof.

On the west (roadside) front, the wall is approximately 3 metres high and features triangular section coping, ramped up on either side of a taller, truncated, raised ashlar panel. At the base of the wall, there are blocked quoined rectangular openings with deep lintels leading into the combing shed, and at about half a metre high, there is a series of patterned tiled vents.

To the left, there is a rusticated elliptical-arched gateway with a spiked panelled double door, a tall dated ashlar surround, and an entablature with a modillion cornice. A ground plan of the mill complex from 1898 indicates that this building was used for carding and combing. It is included for its group value.