Description

LEEDS

SE3733 BULLERTHORPE LANE, Colton
714-1/38/605 (West side)
19/03/70 Colton Mill at Colton Mill Farm
(Formerly Listed as:
BULLERTHORPE LANE, Colton
Colton Mill at Colton Farm)

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Windmill and mill buildings. Probably mid C18 with mid C19
alterations and additions. Sandstone, brick, slate roofs. 3
linked buildings: the 3-storey former windmill with circular
base sharply tapering upwards, conical slate roof; the
3-storey, 2-bay gabled stone granary building on NW side and
the 2-storey, 2-phase brick engine house on south. Boiler
house to E of engine house demolished.
The mill has stone ground floor, square-headed blocked
openings, brick upper floor, tapering inwards and with
segmental-arched openings and dentilled cornice below rebuilt
eaves.
INTERIOR: description taken from West Yorks Archaeology
Service Historic Buildings Report: machinery dating from the
conversion to steam power survives, including spur-wheel,
under-driven mill stones, sack-hoist, winding drum, remains of
hoppers, timber screens and stair.
No remains of the external walkway for controlling the sails
of the windmill, the upper part of this building probably
rebuilt when sails removed and converted to steam power.
Granary: weathered stone, possibly re-used; gable end has
central entrance on ground and 1st floors, flanking windows,
all openings have thin stone lintels; gable copings, paired
windows on right return, oval tie-bar plaques; left return:
access to each of 3 floors of the mill. Common-rafter roof,
stonework much eroded.
Engine house: eastern end mid C19 with segmental-arched
windows, a bay added to west end c1900. Walls originally
plastered; surviving machinery includes a single-cylinder
steam engine, approx 2m diameter fly wheel with curved spokes,
drive wheel and overhead friction line shaft; 2 tall water
tanks against E wall; 3m diameter fly wheel with compass
spokes and deep rim, smaller spoked friction drive wheel, both
set in wheel pit against the N wall. The drive was transmitted
through the wall directly into the mill, the later bay may
have housed a threshing machine. The surviving steam engine
was installed c1902 and the steam boiler was replaced by a gas
engine c1915.

The group is disused, in derelict condition.
(West Yorkshire Archaeology Service Historic Buildings Report:
Thornborrow, P: Colton Mill Farm, Swillington: Wakefield:
1992-).

Listing NGR: SE3763033007

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547357

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)