Yarn Warehouse

SE3132NW 714-1/82/164 06/11/89

LEEDS EAST STREET (South West side) No.76 Yarn warehouse (Formerly Listed as: EAST STREET Bank Mills 'C' and attached yarn warehouse and tow warehouse)

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Yarn warehouse, now industrial units. 1824, altered C19. By John Clark, architect. For Hives and Atkinson. Red brick, corrugated asbestos roof. A rectangular block with lower link building attached to north-west end of Bank Mills 'C' (qv). Street front: 3 storeys, 7 bays, with 6 blocked windows and to the right a large doorway with painted rusticated surround and double panel doors; 7 glazing bar windows to each upper floor. Link-building left of 2 storeys, large cart entrance to ground floor and 2 casements above. River front: 4 storeys, 7 bays with central doorway, double plank doors flanked on either side by 3 casement windows with inverted brick arches below; central loft doorway reduced to 3-light casement and flanking windows to upper floors; ashlar blocks at floor levels. Link building: 3 storeys, 3 bays. INTERIOR: the yarn warehouse reputed to contain slender solid cast-iron columns, some with cast-in twin corbels, inverted cast-iron T-beams, jack arches. HISTORICAL NOTE: the site was first developed by Thomas Lloyd of Armley between 1792 and 1823 when he sold to Hives and Atkinson who redeveloped the buildings as one of the country's largest flax spinning concerns. The earliest surviving building in the Bank Mills complex; Hives and Atkinson previously worked with John Marshall at Marshall Mills, Marshall Street (qv). John Clark also designed John Wilkinson's Hunslet Mill, Goodman Street (qv). (Industrial Archaeology Review, Spring 1988: Fitzgerald, R: Development of cast-iron frames in textile mills to 1850: 142).

Listing NGR: SE3111632950