Building 19 at Cromford Mill

Late C18 residential building, then extended in the later C18, restored in the late C20.

MATERIALS: red brick with a slate twin-gable roof. Stone cills, headers and corbels.

PLAN: building 19 is a rectangular double piled house of two blocks and roughly oriented west to east.

EXTERIOR: the building is two storey with regular window openings and is oriented west to east. To the main frontage (south elevation), there are 10, eight-over-eight single glazed, sliding sash windows with stone cills and voussoirs above forming a flat arch. In the brickwork there is evidence of the substantial rebuilding in the 1980s with the building seemingly re-fronted. The west elevation has a projecting range at the north end and visible Queen Closer bricks; there are two windows with casements in a sash style. To the rear elevation (north), are two pedestrian doorways to the ground floor together with three windows at ground floor level and two at first floor level, of varying size but all with stone, voussoirs including to the doorways. The east side elevation has two windows to the ground floor matching those to the south and west elevations, with simple headers rather than fanned. There is a central brick chimney stack.

INTERIOR: the interior has been entirely restored. There are three rooms to both the ground and first floors. Replacement C19 fireplaces are in situ on the ground and first floors. There is a plaque affixed to an exposed beam within the first-floor main room commemorating the restoration of the building, dated November 4 1985.