Lumford Mill (Original Building Only)
LUMFORD MILL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), BUXTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132647
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lumford Mill (Original Building Only)
- Statutory Address:
- LUMFORD MILL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), BUXTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132647
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lumford Mill (Original Building Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- LUMFORD MILL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), BUXTON ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LUMFORD MILL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), BUXTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bakewell
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 21236 69004
Details
BAKEWELL
SK2169 BUXTON ROAD 831-1/3/54 (North East side) 13/03/51 Lumford Mill (original building only)
GV II
Part of cotton mill now offices. Late C18 or very early C19. By Richard Arkwright for his son Richard. Deeply-coursed dressed sandstone. Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 8-window range. Large quoins. C20 wooden casements. North side: ground-floor and first-floor sill bands extend 5 bays; broad windows to ground-floor bays 1 and 2 have flat-headed segmental arches with keystones. First-floor windows of same bays have cambered arches with keystones. Rest of ground and first floor altered except window to ground-floor bay 5. Second floor: projecting sills to square-headed windows beneath eaves. Bays 7 and 8 have old masonry to lower walls. South side (facing river): small one-storey projection with stone slate roof. Upper floor windows as bays 1 and 2 of north side. Left return: matching windows to first and second floors; band across gable with round-framed recess (concealed by ivy); end stack. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: Richard Arkwright leased the site in 1777 and, after resolving difficulties over the water rights, built the mill for his son Richard. By 1821 it employed 350 people under the management of Richard and Peter Arkwright. Various later C19 owners. Main mill buildings rebuilt after a fire in 1868. (The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles: Harris H: Industrial Archaeology of the Peak District: 1971-: 105-106).
Listing NGR: SK2123669004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468088
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harris, H, Industrial Archaeology of the Peak District, (), 105-106
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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