Victoria Flax Mill Entrance Range And Bollards

LEEDS

SE3132 ATKINSON STREET 714-1/44/20 (East side) 05/08/76 Victoria Flax Mill, entrance range and bollards (Formerly Listed as: ATKINSON STREET, Pottery Field Victoria Mill (Premises of Botterill Seanor and Co Ltd))

GV II

Textile mill offices and warehouses. c1860-70. Probably for the flax spinning firm of Titley and Co, formerly of Water Lane. Red-brown brick, English bond, low-pitch slate roof, stone modillion eaves cornice, quoins, sill bands, keyblocks and rusticated stone plinth. 3 storeys, 15 windows, the 4 to left and 6 to right in slight projections. Carriage arch in centre of right projection: stone quoins, vermiculated rustication to stone round arch with projecting keyblock. Ground-floor windows round-arched, upper-floor windows segmental, all in double recesses with large vermiculated keystone. A pair of cast-iron bollards with ball finials stands against each side of the archway; possibly reset from a position nearer the curb. INTERIOR: not inspected. Titley and Co took over the Victoria Mills complex built by WB Holdsworth; the Insurance map of c1902 shows that this range has brick-arched floors on cast-iron columns.

Listing NGR: SE3132632164