Drying House Range And Attached Engine Shed At Armley Mills

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SE2734 CANAL ROAD 714-1/28/918 (West side (off)) 19/10/51 Drying house range and attached engine shed 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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Drying house range, now museum display and workshops. 1809. For Benjamin Gott. Coursed squared stone, slate and stone slate roofs. 2 storeys, approx 18 bays with added slightly higher 4-window range at east end. The notable features of the south sides are the widely-spaced doors and windows to ground floor, the small square windows beneath eaves and the 4 protruding cast-iron roof truss supports near the centre of the walling. INTERIOR: not inspected. The west end housed the gas plant (the main range was gas lit from 1809) and the cast-iron roof trusses were part of the effort to make the mill as fireproof as possible. Engine shed attached to east end of north side: the pair of basket arches were at each end of a shed at Esholt Sewerage works, built c1895 and rebuilt here c1985.

Listing NGR: SE2759734181