Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1999. Mill, engine house, chimney. 1 related planning application.
Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney
- WRENN ID
- graven-rotunda-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds South West and Morley MP: Mark Sewards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1999
- Type
- Mill, engine house, chimney
- Address
- Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney, Bradford Road, WF3 2DW
- OS grid reference
- SE 297 257
- Coordinates
- 53.72713, -1.55038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ardsley Mill, along with its attached engine house and chimney, is a steam-powered worsted spinning mill built between 1912 and 1913, with minor alterations made in the late 20th century. It was constructed for Thomas Ambler & Sons by the Yorkshire Hennebique Construction Company Limited. The mill is made of reinforced concrete with brick infill and features a flat cement and bitumen roof. It has two storeys over a basement, measuring three bays by seventeen bays, with a four-storey tower at the center of the northwest side. Each bay contains three windows separated by brick piers, and there is a curved and wavy concrete parapet.
The main façade facing southwest has nine three-light casement windows, while the upper two floors feature nine nine-light windows. The lower brick panels display the lettering: "THOMAS AMBLER INTERNATIONAL FINE WORSTED SPINNERS." The southeast front has taking-in doors on all three floors. The engine house, boiler house, and economizer are attached and clad in brick, featuring similar curved parapets and a truncated circular brick stack. The northwest façade consists of seventeen bays, with the central two bays obscured by the four-storey tower that houses the rope race.
Inside, the mill has open floor areas with brick walls defining the central rope race. Two rows of concrete piers support cross beams and concrete floors. This mill is a fine example of a textile mill built using the latest reinforced concrete system and is recognized as the best preserved and earliest example of its type to survive in Yorkshire.
Local climate
Ardsley Mill and attached engine house and chimney receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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