Key Words :- fulling corn carding scribbling fireproof gas plant

Address :- Armley, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Grid Ref :- SE 27580 34170
Co-ordinates :- Lat 53.803103 , Long -1.582716
Local Authority :- Leeds Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II*
Historic England List No - 1255747,
Site Condition :- Site refurbished to industrial / commercial use
Site Dates :- 16th c -

Description and History of Site:-
16th-century water-powered fulling mill, later also a corn mill. Rebuilt 1788 as a three-storey fulling mill, and was then a public mill (including scribbling and carding) until fire destroyed it in 1805. Benjamin Gott rebuilt it as a fireproof woollen factory in 1805-7, the first such known. Much added to afterwards, including gas plant. Main range listed II*, a further six structures on the site separately listed grade II.

Now Leeds Industrial Museum.

Further Reading and References:-
Surveyed for RCHME project. See C. Giles and I. H. Goodall, Yorkshire Textile Mills, 1770-1930 (1992), pp. 24, 47, 200-1 etc, plus figures.
Also W. B. Crump, The Leeds Woollen Industry (Thoresby Soc., XXXII, 1931 for 1929) esp. 267-9.
Brears, Peter. 'Leeds Waterfront Heritage Trail'. Leeds City Museum, 1993
Burton, Anthony. 'Guide to Britain's Working Past'. W W Norton & Co, 2002

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