Pair Of Houses And Warehouse On North Side Of Canal At Armley Mills

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SE2734 CANAL ROAD 714-1/28/922 (West side (off)) 19/10/51 Pair of houses and warehouse on north side of canal at Armley Mills (Formerly Listed as: CANAL ROAD, Armley Armley Mills, incl mill houses to SE, chimney to E, and sluices and bridge W)

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Pair of mill managers' houses and warehouse, now museum offices. By 1793. For Israel and John Burrows. Warehouse C19; range restored post 1969 for Leeds Industrial Museum. Coursed stone, hipped stone slate roof with central and end chimneys to houses, corrugated asbestos roof to warehouse. Houses: semi-detached mirror plan of 2 storeys and 2 bays with lower 2-storey 2-bay service range attached to east end, a similar service bay at west end was incorporated into the warehouse block. Doors with overlight in plain surround to bays 1, 4 and 5; 2-, 3- and 4-light restored thin stone mullioned windows in plain stone surrounds. 9-window warehouse range has 3 steps up to doorway with plain surround right, 9-pane central pivoting windows; a change in stonework indicates rebuilding/raising above ground-floor lintel level. Rear: house has outer round-arched stair windows and tall 2-light windows with sashes, 4-light mullion windows to service block, left. Warehouse range has 4-light mullion window and 2 paired square windows left, the remaining windows as front. INTERIOR: not inspected. Thomas Lloyd rebuilt Armley Mills and leased it to Israel Burrows and Christopher Hill; by 1793 Israel and his brother John occupied the houses and used part of the premises for their own weaving business. Although now in an isolated part of the site the houses originally stood on the main path into the mill from the river ford just downstream. In the early C20 the warehouse was of 3 storeys and extended further west.

Listing NGR: SE2759534109