20-26, MARKET PLACE
20-26, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267895
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 20-26, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 20-26, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267895
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 20-26, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20-26, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 20-26, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cromford
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 29537 56943
Details
SK 2956 MATLOCK MARKET PLACE
Cromford
668-/1/10016 Nos 20-26 (Even)
GV II
A row of shops. Late C18, with C19 and C20 alterations. Of regularly-coursed squared gritstone blocks beneath a hipped roof with a Welsh slate covering laid to diminishing courses and with a lead ridge and hip ridges. The range now accommodates 4 shop units, although early photographs show a different arrangement. There remain 3 units with stone stall risers, above which are set shop windows of differing designs. No.26 retains a 10-pane window, which conforms to the pattern of window shown in an early photograph of this shop front. The shop fronts are set beneath a substantial projection of the roof line, which provided the shops with a continuous canopy. Above the shop windows was a space occupied by ventilation louvres, which also appears to have been used to accommodate the raising of the vertical sash windows of the shop fronts. The end and rear elevations are devoid of openings. HISTORY: the shops formed part of the late C18 development of a market place, to serve the population of Sir Richard Arkwright?s industrial community at Cromford. They are a rare C18 example of purpose-built shops, and are an important component of The Market Place, forming an important group with the adjacent Greyhound Hotel (qv).
Listing NGR: SK2953756943
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462457
- 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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