Former Corn Mill Building at Dickinson's Auto Spares, Corn Mill Fold is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1988. A 18th century Corn mill. 5 related planning applications.
Former Corn Mill Building at Dickinson's Auto Spares, Corn Mill Fold
- WRENN ID
- peeling-spindle-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North West MP: Katie White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1988
- Type
- Corn mill
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- Former Corn Mill Building at Dickinson's Auto Spares, Corn Mill Fold, Low Lane, Horsforth, LS18 5NJ
- OS grid reference
- SE 252 377
- Coordinates
- 53.83581, -1.61727
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former corn mill building at Dickinson's Auto Spares, located at Corn Mill Fold, is a water-powered corn mill that has been converted into a store. It was constructed between 1772 and 1787 by William Wright. The building is made of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and features stone slate roofs. It has an L-shaped plan formed by inter-linked blocks at right angles and consists of three and two storeys.
The east block, likely the original mill, is three storeys high and has three bays. It features square two-light windows with slightly-recessed flat-faced mullions, which are irregularly arranged and mostly blocked at the lower levels. The top level has three windows that are now boarded. There is a quoined vertical joint between the second and third bays up to the first floor level, along with some anciently-blocked windows to the right and a slit-breather.
The south gable includes a garage doorway at ground floor, a two-light window on the second floor, and a similar window in the apex of the gable, which has stacked pigeon-holes and perching ledges above it. The south block, which partly overlaps this gable, is two storeys high and has three bays. It features a segmental-arched wagon entrance in the centre, with two blocked loading doors above and blocked two-light windows on three levels to the right. To the left, there is a doorway at ground floor and two vertically-aligned vertical-rectangular blocked windows, all with plain surrounds. A vertical joint is visible near the left corner, along with remains of a wall from a formerly adjacent building.
Local climate
Former Corn Mill Building at Dickinson's Auto Spares, Corn Mill Fold receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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