| Description | This former woollen mill and warehouse is on a corner site with East Parade. The mill, of c.1865, is built on to and incorporates the remains of East Brook House, which retained its grounds known as Peckover Park until the latter part of the 1850s. The remaining façade is set back north of the mill. It was built c.1800 with restrained neoclassical detailing. It is two storeys high, with a basement and an attic, and is built from finely dressed ashlar. It has a three bay front with a crisply moulded cornice and parapet, originally with three blind balustraded panels, with one only surviving to the left hand side below a later turret feature with a hipped roof. The later attic storey was later added to the right. There are Venetian windows on the ground floor, along with a central former doorway that is round headed and recessed. However, the ground floor is largely obscured by lean to additions.
The mill is still in the early to mid 19th century tradition. It is four storeys high and built of dressed sandstone ‘brick’. The corner, of three windows, is bowed sharply and slightly inset. The building has sill bands and a bracketed eaves cornice. There is a pilastered entablature doorway to the centre of the bowed corner. There is a twelve window plain range to Upper Park Gate.
East Brook House was built by Edmund Peckover, a member of the Norfolk family. After briefly trading as a woolstapler, he set up a banking firm with his nephew Charles Harris, which was later to become the Bradford Old Bank. |