Wren Nest Mill and Chimney and Attached Stone Wall
WREN NEST MILL AND CHIMNEY AND ATTACHED STONE WALL, HIGH STREET WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384274
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Wren Nest Mill and Chimney and Attached Stone Wall
- Statutory Address:
- WREN NEST MILL AND CHIMNEY AND ATTACHED STONE WALL, HIGH STREET WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384274
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Wren Nest Mill and Chimney and Attached Stone Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WREN NEST MILL AND CHIMNEY AND ATTACHED STONE WALL, HIGH STREET WEST
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:
- WREN NEST MILL AND CHIMNEY AND ATTACHED STONE WALL, HIGH STREET WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK0285394118
Details
GLOSSOP
SK0294 HIGH STREET WEST
921-1/10/12 (North side)
27/01/78 Wren Nest Mill, chimney and attached
stone wall
GV II
Cotton spinning mill with integral engine house. c1840 with
late C19 additions, and C20 alterations. Damaged by fire 1996,
and subsequently reduced in size. Coursed millstone grit and
ashlar dressings with stone slate and C20 tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys. 22 window facade and irregular 4 window
sides, with irregular fenestration. South front has 22
windows, all under square headed lintels, mainly 8-pane to
lower 4 floors, those to top floors smaller. 2 tall round
headed windows to extreme left lit former integral engine
house.
Single storey 1913 extension to front with single storey
weaving sheds under north-light roofs. Block to left includes
walkway to adjacent building. Tall brick chimney stack dated
1913.
INTERIOR: massive wooden cross beams with joists and
compounded double skimmed boards for added strength, supported
by circular section cast-iron columns, the upper floors with
brackets. Roof of king post construction with struts. The roof
valleys each have internal gutters. Originally had sprinkler
system. Doors on sliding rail system. Later internal hoist.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: included in this listing is the stretch
of watershot masonry walling to front of the mill, fronting
onto High Street West.
The earliest mill on this site was built c1800 for Lord
Howard's agent Matthew Ellinson.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire:
Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 219; Scott J: Glossop Dale Manor and
Borough: Glossop (Senior Pub.): 1973-1986: 57).
Listing NGR: SK0285394118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484708
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1953), 219
Scott, J, Glossop Dale Manor and Borough, (1973), 57
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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