Yarn Warehouse

The yarn warehouse, now used as industrial units, was built in 1824 and altered in the 19th century. It was designed by architect John Clark for Hives and Atkinson. The building is constructed of red brick and has a corrugated asbestos roof. It is a rectangular block with a lower link building attached to the north-west end of Bank Mills 'C'.

The street front features three storeys and seven bays, with six blocked windows. To the right, there is a large doorway with a painted rusticated surround and double panel doors, along with seven glazing bar windows on each upper floor. The link building to the left has two storeys, a large cart entrance on the ground floor, and two casements above.

On the river front, the warehouse rises to four storeys and has seven bays. It includes a central doorway with double plank doors, flanked by three casement windows on either side, each with inverted brick arches below. The central loft doorway has been reduced to a three-light casement, with flanking windows on the upper floors and ashlar blocks at the floor levels. The link building here is three storeys tall and has three bays.

Inside, the yarn warehouse is reputed to contain slender solid cast-iron columns, some featuring cast-in twin corbels, inverted cast-iron T-beams, and jack arches.

Historically, the site was first developed by Thomas Lloyd of Armley between 1792 and 1823, after which it was sold to Hives and Atkinson, who transformed it into one of the largest flax spinning concerns in the country. This warehouse is the earliest surviving building in the Bank Mills complex. Hives and Atkinson had previously collaborated with John Marshall at Marshall Mills. John Clark also designed John Wilkinson's Hunslet Mill on Goodman Street.