Yorkshire Industrial Heritage

Basic information

Name

Folly Hall Mills.

Township

Huddersfield.

Civil Parish

Huddersfield.

Country

West Yorkshire.

Type of record

A.

NMRfn

63095.

NGR

SE 1419 1599.

UTM

53.64023543, -1.786849759

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Description

Room and power mill, established 1825 by Joseph Kaye, a local entrepreneur and builder. By c1850 complex included six-storeyed seventeen-bay fireproof mill, rebuilt in 1844 after fire, two further mills, a 'weaving factory' of loomshop form, 'stoves' (probably heated cloth dryhouses), teasing shops and a gas plant. In 1844 the mill tenants included merchants, manufacturers, cloth finishers and 'country jobbers', and in 1861 twenty-eight businesses operated from the complex. The largest mill, that of 1844, has an elaborate main front with a central pediment and smaller pediments over the end bays; internally the roof has arched cast-iron trusses. The mill, with about 4,300 square metres of working space, was among the largest structures in the woollen branch before 1850.

Ortophotographic map

Aerial photographic view of Folly Hall Mills (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire).

Site

Map of Huddersfield with its 47 textile mills.

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