7 And 8, Mill Hill

LEEDS

SE3033SW MILL HILL 714-1/78/255 (East side) Nos.7 AND 8

GV II

Warehouse, now restaurant and offices. Early C19 with late C19 and C20 alterations. Red-orange brick, random and English bond, probably slate roof. Modillion eaves cornice, probably wood. 5 storeys, the top storey in the roof space. 5 first-floor windows, the 2 outer windows in slightly recessed bays; 2 rooms deep. 4-pane sashes throughout; stone sills, rubbed brick wedge-type flat arches to original openings, top-storey windows almost square, with rectangular blind panels above. Windows 2 and 4 altered on each floor: 1st-floor loading door reduced, bracketed cornice added to window; 2nd-floor loading door blocked, shallow segmental pediment to window cornice; 3rd-floor shallow segmental arch to window in blocked loading door. C20 ground-floor frontage with entrances to left and right. Left return: rendered, window below gable, forward of ridge. Right return: blocked windows similar to original front. INTERIOR: entrance to left provides access to stairs rising to roof space, probably the original position; top storey only examined in detail. Roof structure comprises 4 trusses of sawn timbers approx 0.8 x 0.25m scantling; pairs of queen posts approx 3m high clasping the collar, 2 sets of purlins pegged at junction with double principal rafters, the outer ends of the principal rafters rest on short beams raised above the floor level. Considerable alteration and repair but the roof structure probably original as the raised trusses are allowed for in the blind panels below the eaves on the front. (Directories of Leeds, 1839, 1875: Haigh, T; White; Ordnance Survey Map surveyed 1847).

Listing NGR: SE3004833319