Description

GLOSSOP

SK0294 HIGH STREET WEST
921-1/10/12 (North side)
27/01/78 Wren Nest Mill, chimney and attached
stone wall

GV II

Cotton spinning mill with integral engine house. c1840 with
late C19 additions, and C20 alterations. Damaged by fire 1996,
and subsequently reduced in size. Coursed millstone grit and
ashlar dressings with stone slate and C20 tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys. 22 window facade and irregular 4 window
sides, with irregular fenestration. South front has 22
windows, all under square headed lintels, mainly 8-pane to
lower 4 floors, those to top floors smaller. 2 tall round
headed windows to extreme left lit former integral engine
house.
Single storey 1913 extension to front with single storey
weaving sheds under north-light roofs. Block to left includes
walkway to adjacent building. Tall brick chimney stack dated
1913.
INTERIOR: massive wooden cross beams with joists and
compounded double skimmed boards for added strength, supported
by circular section cast-iron columns, the upper floors with
brackets. Roof of king post construction with struts. The roof
valleys each have internal gutters. Originally had sprinkler
system. Doors on sliding rail system. Later internal hoist.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: included in this listing is the stretch
of watershot masonry walling to front of the mill, fronting
onto High Street West.
The earliest mill on this site was built c1800 for Lord
Howard's agent Matthew Ellinson.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire:
Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 219; Scott J: Glossop Dale Manor and
Borough: Glossop (Senior Pub.): 1973-1986: 57).

Listing NGR: SK0285394118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664117

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