River Dale House and River Dale Cottages
RIVER DALE HOUSE AND RIVER DALE COTTAGES, LOW MATLOCK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379967
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- River Dale House and River Dale Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- RIVER DALE HOUSE AND RIVER DALE COTTAGES, LOW MATLOCK LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379967
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-2000
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- River Dale House and River Dale Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIVER DALE HOUSE AND RIVER DALE COTTAGES, LOW MATLOCK LANE
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:
- RIVER DALE HOUSE AND RIVER DALE COTTAGES, LOW MATLOCK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sheffield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 30993 89478
Details
SK 38 NW BRADFIELD LOW MATLOCK LANE
564/14/10012 River Dale House and River Dale Cottages 12.1.2000
GV II
Terrace of houses with attached outbuilding. c1800 or earlier, with mid-late C19 and early C20 alterations. Coursed rubble sandstone, rendered on the front elevation, with brick ridge and gable stacks and Welsh slate roof coverings. Linear stepped range, aligned east-west, with 2 storeyed stable with overloft to west end, and taller advanced dwelling to east end. FRONT (south) ELEVATION: 2 storeys with attics, 8 bay range with 2 double-fronted houses to centre of range with a taller house to the east end with doorway to left side and canted bay window to right. Coupled sash windows without glazing bars above canted bay, single sashes to both floors above door. 3 light casement windows to centre houses, with square bay window with sashes to right of door of right-hand house. Former stable to west end with quoined corner, massive surround with bonding stones to main doorway and taking-in door above. INTERIORS: East end house with interior remodelled c1900, including contemporary hearth surround, doors and panelling. The 2 other dwellings are plainly detailed with simple hearth surrounds and central dog-leg stairs. HISTORY: The houses provided accommodation for workers and the site manager of the nearby water-powered rolling mill which was destroyed by the Sheffield Flood of 1864, when a reservoir dam at the head of the Loxley Valley failed. The River Dale House and River Dale Cottages, which formed part of a small industrial hamlet at Low Matlock survived the catastrophe, being sited on higher ground. A terrace of early C19 houses forming part of the setting of Low Matlock Rolling Mill (item 14/48) and a significant component of a small rural industrial community in the Loxley Valley, an important location representative of the development of Sheffield's water- powered metal working industries in the C19.
Listing NGR: SK3099389478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479435
- 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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