Listed Building record MDR25285 - Wren Nest Mill, High Street West, Glossop

Wren Nest Mill, High Street West, Glossop, built c1840. From the National Heritage List for England: 'GLOSSOP SK0294 HIGH STREET WEST 921-1/10/12 (North side) 27/01/78 Wren Nest Mill, chimney and attached stone wall GV II Cotton spinning mill with integral engine house. c1840 with late C19 additions, and C20 alterations. Damaged by fire 1996, and subsequently reduced in size. Coursed millstone grit and ashlar dressings with stone slate and C20 tile roofs. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys. 22 window facade and irregular 4 window sides, with irregular fenestration. South front has 22 windows, all under square headed lintels, mainly 8-pane to lower 4 floors, those to top floors smaller. 2 tall round headed windows to extreme left lit former integral engine house. Single storey 1913 extension to front with single storey weaving sheds under north-light roofs. Block to left includes walkway to adjacent building. Tall brick chimney stack dated 1913. INTERIOR: massive wooden cross beams with joists and compounded double skimmed boards for added strength, supported by circular section cast-iron columns, the upper floors with brackets. Roof of king post construction with struts. The roof valleys each have internal gutters. Originally had sprinkler system. Doors on sliding rail system. Later internal hoist. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: included in this listing is the stretch of watershot masonry walling to front of the mill, fronting onto High Street West. The earliest mill on this site was built c1800 for Lord Howard's agent Matthew Ellinson. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 219; Scott J: Glossop Dale Manor and Borough: Glossop (Senior Pub.): 1973-1986: 57). Listing NGR: SK0285394118.' (1)