| Catalogue Finding Number | WYHER/6057 |
| Office record is held at | Historical Environment Record, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service |
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| Title | Buslingthorpe Tannery |
| Description | IMPORTANT IA SITE HG
Buslingthorpe Tannery. Established 1840 by William Bulmer; rebuilt and extended from 1850s by William Jackson and his son WL Jackson (Lord Allerton) with a massive expansion taking place in the 1880s, which made it one of the largest of Leeds tanneries. Largest portion of the site in subsequent use as a woollen mill. Most of the late 19th century build (apparently) intact 1995. Further site visit including inspection of the interior in the first instance.
Before 1850 the tannery comprised of a short range of narrow buildings at the very eastern edge of the site. Notable features included a circular horse gin for grinding oak bark, and more than 100 tan pits in an open yard to the west. None of these earlier structure survive. All surviving structures are of brick, and earliest of which dates from between 1850 and 1877. They comprise of a four storey building and a five storey building in a cruciform arrangement at the centre of the site – probably used primarily as leather dressing shops, with warehousing and drying rooms on the upper floors. – and a single storey block of offices at the north end of the site. A third five storey building was constructed in the late 1870s and replaces an earlier structure on the same site. Buslingthorpe’s most notable characteristics are the rather piecemeal development of the later buildings – which was probably dictated to some extent by the location of the site access and of the existing tan pits (Gomersal, 2000). |
| Date | 20th century |
| Extent | contact the West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service for information on what is available |
| Level | Item |