Thwaite House
Thwaite House is a fine Georgian home which was built in 1823 on the foundations of a much earlier house. It is now a Grade 2 listed building and preserves many original features of houses from this period.
Thwaite House has always been the mill managers’ house. The workers at the mill would have lived at Dandy Row, a row of terraced cottages further down ‘the island’ which were demolished in 1968, or in nearby Stourton or Hunslet.
Several generations of the Horn family have lived on ‘the Island’ since 1872, but by the 1950’s the house had become virtually derelict and was used only for office work.
Thwaite House has now been restored to its former glory, and is used for displays and exhibitions to show what life was like living on the Island and working at the mill.
Tours of the mills include a self-led visit to Thwaite House which is preserved to show what life was like on Thwaite Island in the 1940s without electricity or modern appliances as we know them!