Former Spinning Mill Ranges At Carr Mills

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SE33NW BUSLINGTHORPE LANE, Buslingthorpe 714-1/7/1294 (West side) 05/08/76 No.322 Former spinning mill ranges at Carr Mills (Formerly Listed as: MEANWOOD, Buslingthorpe No.322 Carr Mills, main building and entrance building (No.136 Buslingthorpe Lane))

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Spinning mill ranges, now light industrial units. 1810, altered C19 and C20. For Abraham Rhodes. Coursed square gritstone, thin courses, separately roofed in stone slates. L-plan, 4+1 storeys and 14 and 8 windows long; a lower 3-storey extension at NE end. Plain openings with stone lintels and sills, C20 casements. INTERIOR: reputed to have structural features dating from 1810-1850 including cast-iron beams supporting stone flag floors, the parabolic beams installed flange uppermost and single span, the flanges bulbous in form indicating a correct understanding of the bending moment across the span, and intermediate joists set in sockets cast in the sides of the beams. Abraham Rhodes built Beech Grove House, warehouse and workshops Beech Grove now part of the Leeds University campus (qv) in 1799 and in 1810 built this mill at Woodhouse Carr, continuing to rent the workshops at Beech Grove. In 1864 the mill was taken over by Peter Laycock. (Industrial Archaeology Review, X, 2, Spring 1988: Fitzgerald RS: The Development of the Cast-iron frame in Textile Mills to 1850: 1988-: 134; Leeds University Press: Beresford M: Walks Round Red Brick: Leeds: 1980-: 44; Thoresby Society Publications, LX & LXI, 131 & 132: Beresford MW: East End, West End. The Face of Leeds 1684-1842.: Leeds: 1988-: 325).

Listing NGR: SE2998835630