Crank Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1980. Mill. 1 related planning application.
Crank Mills
- WRENN ID
- long-beam-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds South West and Morley MP: Mark Sewards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1980
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Crank Mills, Station Road, Morley, LS27 8JT
- OS grid reference
- SE 268 281
- Coordinates
- 53.74936, -1.59431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crank Mills is a mill built around 1792, consisting of two sections constructed for the Earl of Dartmouth. The building is made of thin coursed hammer-dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It stands three storeys high and has a seven-bay original section with a taller three-bay addition on the left. All windows have plain stone surrounds, deep lintels, and slightly projecting sills. The fourth bay includes a taking-in door on the first floor, while the eighth and ninth bays have taller first-floor windows with raised lintels. All windows contain small-pane glazing.
To the right of the main building is a former engine house with a lean-to roof, which features a tall full-height window with a semicircular arch, impost, and keystone. The rear of the engine house has a taking-in door to the second bay and similar windows to those at the front. The left-hand return displays four bays of similar windows, with a taking-in door to the first floor of the second bay and a smaller window set in the gable. A plaque on the front notes that this was the first steam-driven woollen mill in West Yorkshire.
Local climate
Crank Mills receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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