Description and History of Site:-
"Four ranges of mill building, parallel with the road and descending the hillside. Begun 1848 with additions 1849, 1855, 1850-60. Built in sandstone 'bricks' with stone slate roofs." From the listing description.

Giles & Goodall wrote: "Steam-powered worsted mill. First buildings on site were dwellings of 1831, the base of a family putting-out business. Mill and warehouse built 1849, representing shift away from dispersed working. Mill, of four storeys and attic and eleven bays and with timber floors, had corner engine house probably for vertical engine. Second warehouse built 1855, followed by second mill (c1860, three storeys, eleven bays) and six-bay extension to first mill (c1865). Occupiers, Joshua Craven and Son, were both spinners and manufacturers, and it is likely that parts of the main mills were used for powerloom weaving. Associated buildings: manufacturer's house, Ashfield House, to east of mills, of c1860; workers' housing, pre-dating mill, in Prospect Street."

Now (2019) demolished following serious fires in 2011 and 2016.

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

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Key Words :- textile mill worsted

Address :- Thornton Road, Thornton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD13 3LP
Grid Ref :- SE 1017 3262
Co-ordinates :- Lat 53.789800 , Long -1.847113
Local Authority :- City of Bradford
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Site demolished or no longer extant
Historic England List No - 1314121,
Site Condition :- Site cleared - no above ground remains visible
Site Dates :- 1848 - 2016
Record Date :- 3 August 2016

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