Description

SK 2857/2957 CROMFORD MILL ROAD

668-0/2/10001 Southern warehouse at Cromford Wharf
08.05.1992

GV II

Canal Warehouse. 1823, with later additions. For Nathaniel Wheatcroft (Arkwright Society archives). Coursed, squared and dressed sandstone, graduated Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 x 1 bays. North side: 2 doorways to ground floor flanked by windows with flush sills; all openings have massive lintels (openings boarded at time of survey). 1st floor doorway to left of centre has later wooden balcony; windows to each side as before, slatted casements. Rebuilt ashlar end stack on right. Rear (facing canal): central door flanked by windows beneath slate-hung projection cantilevered on wooden beams and beneath catslide roof East gable has enlarged double doors to ground floor beneath narrower double doors in stout wooden frame; bricked gable opening. Replica wooden crane fixed to wall. Single storey additions at west end form link to Counting House (qv). Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK2996457017

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537231

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)