Description

LEEDS

SE3033SW MILL HILL
714-1/78/255 (East side)
Nos.7 AND 8

GV II

Warehouse, now restaurant and offices. Early C19 with late C19
and C20 alterations. Red-orange brick, random and English
bond, probably slate roof. Modillion eaves cornice, probably
wood.
5 storeys, the top storey in the roof space. 5 first-floor
windows, the 2 outer windows in slightly recessed bays; 2
rooms deep. 4-pane sashes throughout; stone sills, rubbed
brick wedge-type flat arches to original openings, top-storey
windows almost square, with rectangular blind panels above.
Windows 2 and 4 altered on each floor: 1st-floor loading door
reduced, bracketed cornice added to window; 2nd-floor loading
door blocked, shallow segmental pediment to window cornice;
3rd-floor shallow segmental arch to window in blocked loading
door. C20 ground-floor frontage with entrances to left and
right. Left return: rendered, window below gable, forward of
ridge. Right return: blocked windows similar to original
front.
INTERIOR: entrance to left provides access to stairs rising to
roof space, probably the original position; top storey only
examined in detail. Roof structure comprises 4 trusses of sawn
timbers approx 0.8 x 0.25m scantling; pairs of queen posts
approx 3m high clasping the collar, 2 sets of purlins pegged
at junction with double principal rafters, the outer ends of
the principal rafters rest on short beams raised above the
floor level. Considerable alteration and repair but the roof
structure probably original as the raised trusses are allowed
for in the blind panels below the eaves on the front.
(Directories of Leeds, 1839, 1875: Haigh, T; White; Ordnance
Survey Map surveyed 1847).

Listing NGR: SE3004833319

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656001

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings