CRESSBROOK MILL

CRESSBROOK MILL, UPPERDALE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1158897
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1967
List Entry Name:: CRESSBROOK MILL
Statutory Address:: CRESSBROOK MILL, UPPERDALE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1158897
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1967
List Entry Name:: CRESSBROOK MILL
Statutory Address 1:: CRESSBROOK MILL, UPPERDALE LANE

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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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:: CRESSBROOK MILL, UPPERDALE LANE

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:: Litton
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SK 17299 72709

Details

SK 17 SE PARISH OF LITTON UPPERDALE LANE 3/66 (West Side) 12.7.67 Cressbrook Mill GV II*

Cotton mill, now disused. 1814-15 for William Newton. Rubble limestone, partly rendered, with gritstone dressings and quoins. Hipped Welsh slate roof with octagonal wooden cupola with ogee lead roof. Three storeys, plus basement, constructed of timber beams and cast iron supports. Spiral stone staircase in projecting bay to west. North elevation of twelve, plus two bays. The twelve bays symmetrical with the centre four advanced beneath a pediment. Three tiers of twelve windows, the top ones slightly smaller. Projecting stone lintels and sills. Some original glazing bar sashes and small paned fixed lights. Clock face in the pediment. Two bays set back to the right with four windows to the left, now blind, with iron Gothick glazing bars. These are probably the remains of the original mill of 1779 which stood at right angles. Three windows to the right, enlarged. Wheel pit to the north west. South elevation of eleven bays, four-four-three, the centre four bays advanced beneath a pediment. Three tiers of eleven windows as on the north side. Clock face in the pediment. The clock, which works the two faces from the same mechanism, and the cupola were added in 1837 to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Victoria. The cupola is octagonal with round-arches, with projecting keyblocks and impost blocks. Modillion cornice and ogee lead roof. The three bells are inscribed 'Thomas Mears of London Founder 1837'. Lower, C20, building with sawtooth roof, attached along south side and not of special interest. The mill closed down in 1965.

Listing NGR: SK1729972709

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Legacy System number:: 80978
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.