Listed Building: NOS. 132-136 (EVEN) CROMFORD HILL (1277690)

Three houses. Built 1780s for Richard Arkwright to accommodate workers for his textile mills. Coursed rubble; tiled roofs under two levels. Two ridge stacks, one in red and black brick, the other renewed in brick. Plan similar to Arkwright phase I type; 3 storeys; single unit with services to rear under low outshut; side stairs against party or end 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 window to each floor; doorways with large rectangular lintels and crude capitals and bases to imposts, all tooled. Windows to all except ground floor of No. 136 intact (the latter enlarged); doorways all intact. C20 doors and casements throughout. Small C20 window inserted to No. 132, first floor. Rear: first floor windows intact; C20 brick and reconstituted stone extensions, all small. NB Nos 132 and 134, Cromford Hill, Cromford were individually listed on the 3rd November 1986, with the serial numbers 1/150 and 1/15P respectively. These 3 buildings now have the serial number 1/130. AMENDMENT Previous listings: No 132 CROMFORD HILL Terrace cottage. Late C18. Gritstone with gritstone dressings. Plain tile roof with a single shared red and blue brick gable stack. Single bay, 3 storey. Doorway has flush dressed jambs and lintel, and a C20 glazed door. A single 2 light flush mullion window to each floor with C20 casements. Built as part of the millworkers'cottages to serve Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill. No 134 CROMFORD HILL Terrace cottage. Late C18. Gritstone with gritstone dressings. Plain tile roof with single shared red and blue brick gable stack. Single bay, 3 storey. Doorway has flush dressed jambs and lintel, and a C20 half-glazed door. A single 2 light flush mullion window to each floor with C20 casements. Built as part of the millworkers' cottages to serve Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill.