Arkwright Square Arkwright Square (Arkwright Cottage And Two Unnamed Cottages)

BAKEWELL

SK2168 MILL STREET 831-1/4/132 (East side) 07/01/70 Arkwright Square (Formerly Listed as: MILL STREET (North side) Arkwright Square: Premises occupied by Mrs D Wheeldon and 5 others)

GV II

Includes: Arkwright Square (Arkwright Cottage and two unnamed cottages) BUXTON ROAD. Small group of industrial housing now 8 dwellings including Corner House, Corner Cottage, Arch Cottage, The Cottage, Arkwright Cottage, Rose Cottage and 2 un-named houses. Late C18, altered. Rubble limestone with sandstone dressings; graduated slate roof with rolled-lead ridges. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range facing Mill Street, 3-window range facing Buxton Road. The houses set around 3 sides of a courtyard. Large quoins; flush sills and plain lintels; various C20 part-glazed and boarded doors. Mill Street front: quoins to near-central segmental archway. 2 doorways to left and one to right; 30-pane casements to right of door and small casement to each floor on left. Buxton Road front: 3 doorways; 30-pane casement to ground floor of Arkwright Cottage on left otherwise 3-light and 2-light casements with glazing bars. Rebuilt facade to unnamed house on right, the openings without glazing. Hipped angle to the roof; brick ridge stacks and end stacks with coved ashlar cornices. Corner House adjoins rear of Corner Cottage and is taller: stable-type door and casements with glazing bars; red tile roof with brick end stack having coved cornice. Rose Cottage is to rear of the yard: door to left of 3 casements to each floor in the style of horizontally-sliding sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK2165968732