Listed Building: NOS. 100 TO 110 CROMFORD HILL (1249019)

Row of six houses. Built 1780s for Richard Arkwright to accommodate workers for his textile mills. The row rises up Cromford Hill under three roof levels. Coursed rubble; tiled roofs. Three red and black brick ridge stacks. Plan similar to Arkwright phase I type, ie, 3 storeys, single unit with rear services under catslide; side stairs against side or party walls at rear 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 to all floors; doorways with substantial rectangular lintels and crude capitals and bases to imposts, all tooled. Doorways survive intact; window surrounds intact throughout, and the mullions to Nos 100, 104, 110 and to the upper floors only of No. 106. C20 casements and glazed or half- glazed doors. Some original single-light window surrounds to rear; also some later extensions of the C19 and C20. NB Nos 100, 104 and 110 Cromford Hill, Cromford, were individually listed on the 3rd November 1986 with serial numbers 1/15 I-K respectively. The row of 6 houses now has the serial number 1/124. The asset was previously listed four times under List entries 1248372, 1248387 and 1277944. List entries 1248387 and 1248372 were removed from the List on 02/12/2014 and List entry 1277944 was removed from the List on 23/01/2015.