TORR TOP COTTAGES

6, 7 AND 8, LOWER ROCK STREET, NEW MILLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088089
Date first listed:: 18-May-1990
List Entry Name:: TORR TOP COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: 6, 7 AND 8, LOWER ROCK STREET, NEW MILLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1088089
Date first listed:: 18-May-1990
List Entry Name:: TORR TOP COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: 6, 7 AND 8, LOWER ROCK STREET, NEW MILLS

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 6, 7 AND 8, LOWER ROCK STREET, NEW MILLS

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: High Peak (District Authority)
Parish:: New Mills
National Grid Reference:: SK 00064 85405

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/06/2015

SK 0085/0185 1/107 5172

NEW MILLS, LOWER ROCK STREET, Nos. 6, 7 and 8 (Torr Top Cottages)

(Formerly listed as Torr Top Cottages, ROCK STREET)

II

A range of three houses. Mid C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Regularly coursed squared grit stone, with ashlar dressings, plain gables, gable chimneys, one buck, one stone, with welsh slate and stone slate roof coverings North elevation. A stepped range climbing from east to west, the lowest part with its gable to the street, and of two storeys, as is the middle range. The west end is three storeyed, and was formerly linked to now-demolished buildings to form a terrace. Lower part with stacked 3 light flush mullioned windows to gable centre, and a doorway to the west with a plain stone surround. The lower window is blocked, the upper window is without window joinery. Central part with stacked windows to east side, formerly sash framed, below wedge lintels, and with a doorway to the west with a semi-circular head, and a key block. Plain doorway. Upper part work stacked 3-light flush mullioned windows and a remodelled or inserted doorway without surround, but with a plain planked door. The range is presently unoccupied, and the interior of the lower part has been removed. Rear with a 3-light mullioned window (2 mullions lost) and two sash windows in stone surrounds.

Listing NGR: SK0006485405

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Legacy System number:: 81897
Legacy System:: LBS

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