Calver Mill

CALVER MILL, KINGSGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068650
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1967
List Entry Name:
Calver Mill
Statutory Address:
CALVER MILL, KINGSGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068650
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1967
List Entry Name:
Calver Mill
Statutory Address 1:
CALVER MILL, KINGSGATE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CALVER MILL, KINGSGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:
Calver
National Park:
Peak District
National Grid Reference:
SK2470974549

Details

PARISH OF CALVER KINGSGATE
SK 27 SW
2/51 (North Side)
12.7.67 Calver Mill
GV II
Cotton mill now Sissons factory. 1803-4. Coursed squared
gritstone, rock-faced gritstone and ashlar. Stone slate and
cement tile hipped roofs. T-plan with additional C20 wing to
north not of special interest. Six storeys with a two storey
late C19 wing to west. South elevation of 9-2-9 bays, the
middle two a projecting staircase and office wing. Rock-faced
ground floor, large ashlar lintels forming continuous bands
between areas of smaller coursed stone. Six tiers of glazing
bar sashes to each bay, with projecting sills. To the ground
floor the west return wall of the staircase wing has a round-
arched doorway with key and impost blocks, plank doors and
traceried fanlight. Also a C20 doorway with steel hood. In the
first bay to the west is a sliding plank door. The ground floor
to the eastern nine bays has an addition of 1947 not of special
interest. Similar glazing bar sashes to the two bay staircase
wing and its three-bay return elevations. Late C19 wing to west
has six bays of similar glazing bar sashes to its two floors.
North elevation originally with nineteen bays of glazing bar
sashes now interrupted by C20 additions. Octagonal 'tower' bays
at each end with a chamfer between each storey. These
originally contained closets. The original goit ran through a
segmental arch in the middle of the mill. The much altered
interior was of timber construction with later cast iron
replacement pillars.


Listing NGR: SK2470974549

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
81617
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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