Listed Building record MDR10414 - Nos. 5-27 Mile Ash Lane, Derby

Nos. 5-27 Mile Ash Lane, Derby, built c1795. 'Boar's Head Cotton Mill Complex and Associated Housing, Darley Abbey. Thomas Evans began the mill building programme in 1782, and in order to attract an adequate work force to his new enterprise he created a new village, complete with school and other amenities. The Workers Housing: built in 1795 are nos 5-27 (odd) Mile Ash Lane, a three storey terraced range of twelve houses in brick with slate roofs, built in mirror image pairs in plan sharing chimney stacks.' (1) From the National Heritage List for England: '893/7/198 MILE ASH LANE 24-FEB-77 DARLEY ABBEY 5-27 GV II 1795-96. 3 storey terraced range of twelve mill workers houses with slate roofs built by the Evans family. The houses have segmental brick-arched lintels and sash windows generally with glazing bars, angled brick header dentil course at eaves level and were constructed as mirror image pairs in plan sharing a chimney-stack. Sited at the main access point off the turnpike road from Derby into the settlement and built on a slight curve, the houses are stepped at each party wall to accommodate the sloping ground. The C18 and C19 houses and schoolrooms in Darley Abbey built or acquired by various generations of the Evans family for their workers are of interest as a group to be compared with the Arkwright settlement at Cromford and the Strutt settlements at Belper and Milford. Listing NGR: SK3487738426.' (2)