Description

1. CROMFORD HILL
1390 CROMFORD

Nos 132-136 (even)
SK 2856/2956 1/130

II GV

2.
Three houses. Built 1780s for Richard Arkwright to accommodate workers for his
textile mills. Coursed rubble; tiled roofs under two levels. Two ridge stacks, one
in red and black brick, the other renewed in brick. Plan similar to Arkwright
phase I type; 3 storeys; single unit with services to rear under low outshut; side
stairs against party or end walls behind and to one side of front entrance; 2-bay
front elevations, the entrance bay with no windows above, the other with 2-light
stone-mullioned window to each floor; doorways with large rectangular lintels and
crude capitals and bases to imposts, all tooled. Windows to all except ground floor
of No. 136 intact (the latter enlarged); doorways all intact. C20 doors and
casements throughout. Small C20 window inserted to No. 132, first floor. Rear:
first floor windows intact; C20 brick and reconstituted stone extensions, all small.

NB Nos 132 and 134, Cromford Hill, Cromford were individually listed on the
3rd November 1986, with the serial numbers 1/150 and 1/15P respectively. These 3
buildings now have the serial number 1/130.

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1. CROMFORD HILL
1390 (West Side)

SK 2856 and 2956 No 132
1/15O
GV
II

2.
Terrace cottage. Late C18. Gritstone with gritstone dressings. Plain tile roof with a
single shared red and blue brick gable stack. Single bay, 3 storey. Doorway has flush
dressed jambs and lintel, and a C20 glazed door. A single 2 light flush mullion window
to each floor with C20 casements. Built as part of the millworkers'cottages to serve
Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill.

1. CROMFORD HILL
1390 (West Side)

SK 2856 and 2956
No 134
1/15P GV
II

2.
Terrace cottage. Late C18. Gritstone with gritstone dressings. Plain tile roof
with single shared red and blue brick gable stack. Single bay, 3 storey. Doorway
has flush dressed jambs and lintel, and a C20 half-glazed door. A single 2 light flush
mullion window to each floor with C20 casements. Built as part of the millworkers'
cottages to serve Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill.

Listing NGR: SK2918756416

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567087

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