Description

1. CROMFORD HILL
1390 CROMFORD

Nos 124-128 (even)
SK 2856/2956 1/128

II GV

2.
Two (formerly three) houses. Built 1780s for Richard Arkwright to accommodate
workers for his textile mills. Coursed rubble; tiled roofs; two red and black brick
ridge stacks, the plan of Nos 124 and 126 (which are of three storeys) of Arkwright
phase I type: single unit with rear services under catslide; side stairs against end
and party walls behind and to one side of front entrance; 2-bay front elevations,
the entrance bay with no windows above, the other with 2-light stone mullioned
windows (which survive intact only to the upper floors of No. 126; surrounds intact
to No. 128 but altered to No. 126 at ground floor level); doorways with substantial
rectangular lintels and crude capitals and bases to imposts, all tooled intact to
all three houses. No. 128 is of two storeys, 2-light mullioned window to first
floor only, the ground-floor window opening altered. Although sharing similar
decorative features with the other two, No. 128 is later (see vertical masonry
joint). Renewed casements throughout; doors: glazed C20 to No. 124, planked C19 to
others. Tie rod ends visible to fronts of Nos 124 and 126.

Listing NGR: SK2919556436

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541224

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