Description and History of Site:-

From the listing description: "1854. Hammer-dressed stone. Ashlar dressings. Pitched stone slate roof. 3 storeys. Modillion eaves cornice. Blocking course. Continuous 1st floor sill and ground floor impost bands. 15 ranges of windows with glazing bars, round-arched on ground floor, with rock-faced voussoirs and keystones. Entrance bay flanked by giant rusticated pilasters with urns on top: semi-circular panel with "Albert Mills 1854" in sans-cerif capitals. Double doors with moulded panels in semi-circular arch with moulded surround and vermiculated keystone. 2 oculi with keystones on 1st floor. One pair of round-arched windows on 2nd floor, with central colonnette, consoles to moulded voussoirs, and keystone. One-storey extension to north: pitched slate roof: stone brackets to gutter. 10 segment-headed windows with glazing bars, plain raised voussoirs, continuous plain raised impost band and continuous sill band. South elevation has parapet with shaped west terminal." Note that the references to 1854 are wrong. The date on the building is evidently 1853. Now (2019) in use by a variety of commercial and recreational operations.Giles and Goodall wrote:"Established in 1853 as steam-powered woollen mill. First buildings included fireproof mill of six storeys and fifteen bays, dyehouse, wash room, and sizing room. Mill has internal end engine house and attached boiler house with drying floors over boilers. New mill, small shed and warehouse added c1866, and new range with warehouse and dyehouse, to designs of M Beaumont of Huddersfield, built 1871 on the street front. Chief problem of interpretation lies in use of the mill: operated by woollen manufacturers, it had only a small shed, suggesting either use of main mills for weaving or employment of domestic weavers. Became a room and power mill after failure of original firm in the 1880s."

Further Reading and References:-

Yorkshire Textile Mills 1770-1930 Colum Giles and Ian H Goodall 1992 London HMSO.

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Address :- Albert Street , Lockwood, Huddersfield , West Yorkshire, HD1 3PY
Grid Ref :- SE 1405 1555
Co-ordinates :- Lat 53.636284 , Long -1.788987
Local Authority :- Kirklees Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Listed - Grade II
Historic England List No - 1220169,
Site Condition :- Site in alternative industrial use
Site Dates :- 1853 -
Contributor :- IHS Database - 3 August 2016

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