| Description | Oak Tannery. Built by William Paul on the site of Whitehead and Botterill's Dyehouse in 1876 and adjacent to Joppa Tannery (PRN 6073). The earliest structures, at the north end of the site, comprised a quadrange of four storey buildings surrounding a single storey covered yard. These were augmented in the 1880s and 1890s by a complex of building on the south side, including a second covered yard.
When inspected by Helen Gomersal (WYAAS) in the mid 1990s only the street frontage and a truncated portion of the original quadrange survived on the site. The façade to Kirkstall Road is of gritstone, the basic structure of the buildings is of brick. Building A comprises of four storeys, and is fourteen bays long. The building, which probably originally house the currying department, has been completely renovated internally. |