Mill To South Of Highbury Works

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SE2836NW GREEN ROAD, Meanwood 714-1/60/1310 (South West side) 07/09/94 Mill to south of Highbury Works (Formerly Listed as: GREEN ROAD (South West side) Mill to south of Highbury Works, formerly Meanwood Tannery)

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Paper mill, later tannery, now vacant. c1800, 1844 and 1857, with later alterations. For Thomas Martin, converted for Samuel Smith. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and hipped corrugated sheet roof with 8 circular metal ventilators. Quoins and second-floor sill band. 3 storeys. L-plan. East front, 13 bays, with to right a pair of double doors to each floor. Ground floor has various blocked windows, and above an off-centre loft door with to right four 2-light windows and to right 7 similar windows. Above again 12 openings, originally with louvred shutters now partly blocked with 3-light upper windows. Left return to south has 2 bays with similar fenestration. West front, 12 bays, arranged 5:8 with the left block projecting. Set back wing to right has 8 windows with 8 windows above, mostly blocked, and above again 8 openings, originally with louvred shutters now partly blocked with 2- and 3-light upper windows. INTERIOR: has wooden beams and floors with original wooden staircases. Built for Thomas Martin as a paper mill and converted by Samuel Smith to a tannery.

Listing NGR: SE2835736986