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Converted to house
The former tower windmill was converted into a house.
Site overview
The Round House at Scott Hall, Leeds, is a former tower windmill converted into a house. The windmill was built in the late eighteenth century and stood at Potternewton Mount. It is built of gritstone and has four storeys, a parapet with wrought-iron railing and tiers of windows on three sides.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
The Round House was built at Scott Hall, Leeds, as a tower windmill in the late eighteenth century. A 1789 lease referred to a recently built windmill at Scott Hall Gate Close, with an associated newly erected dwelling. The former mill was later converted into a house.
The surviving building is of gritstone and has four storeys, a parapet with wrought-iron railing and tiers of windows on three sides, some with tie-stone jambs. It is protected as a Grade II listed building and survives as a converted former windmill at Potternewton Mount.
Timeline
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Grade II listing
The Round House became protected as a Grade II listed building.
1770–1789
Tower windmill built
The Scott Hall windmill was built by the late eighteenth century at Potternewton Mount.
Sources and records
Historic England National Heritage List entry
Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque information
Round Houses article
Wikimedia Commons photographic entry
List of windmills in West Yorkshire
Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque information
Round Houses article
Wikimedia Commons photographic entry
List of windmills in West Yorkshire