116-122, Cromford Hill

Nos 116-122, Cromford Hill form a row of four houses likely built around 1830 to provide accommodation for textile workers at the Cromford mills. The houses are constructed of coursed rubble with a Welsh slate roof and have two red and black brick ridge stacks. The plan is based on a variation of Arkwright’s Phase I design, with each house featuring a single unit and rear service areas. Staircases are located against the end or party walls behind the front entrance. The front elevations are two bays wide; the entrance bay is windowless above the ground floor while the other bay has windows set beneath inverted T lintels. Doorways also feature similar lintels. No. 122 has original cast-iron window frames with 18 panes on the ground floor and 30 panes on the first floor, incorporating a central opening. The other windows have 20th-century 2-light casements, and the doors are 20th-century glazed and part-glazed. The rear of the row features two 19th-century gabled stone wings and a 20th-century reconstituted stone extension.

Separately listed and previously recorded under serial number 1/15M, No. 122 is a late 18th-century terrace cottage built of gritstone with gritstone dressings and a slate roof. It features a single shared gable stack of red and blue brick. The single bay, two-storey cottage has a doorway with a flush dressed lintel and a 20th-century half-glazed door, and original cast-iron windows, each with a four-pane casement on both the ground and first floors. It was constructed as part of the millworkers’ cottages to serve Richard Arkwright’s Cromford Mill.