Calver Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. Mill. 1 related planning application.
Calver Mill
- WRENN ID
- rusted-panel-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1967
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Calver Mill, Kingsgate, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 247 745
- Coordinates
- 53.26738, -1.63099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Calver Mill is a cotton mill that has been converted into the Sissons factory. It was built between 1803 and 1804 and features coursed squared gritstone, rock-faced gritstone, and ashlar. The roofs are hipped and made of stone slate and cement tile. The building has a T-plan layout with an additional 20th-century wing to the north that is not of special interest. It stands six storeys tall, with a two-storey late 19th-century wing to the west.
The south elevation consists of nine bays, with the middle two bays forming a projecting staircase and office wing. The ground floor is rock-faced, with large ashlar lintels creating continuous bands between smaller areas of coursed stone. Each bay has six tiers of glazing bar sash windows with projecting sills. On the ground floor, the west return wall of the staircase wing features a round-arched doorway with key and impost blocks, a plank door, and a traceried fanlight. There is also a 20th-century doorway with a steel hood. A sliding plank door is located in the first bay to the west. The eastern nine bays of the ground floor have a 1947 addition that is not of special interest. The staircase wing and its three-bay return elevations have similar glazing bar sashes. The late 19th-century wing to the west has six bays of similar glazing bar sashes across its two floors.
The north elevation originally had nineteen bays of glazing bar sashes, which are now interrupted by 20th-century additions. At each end of the elevation are octagonal 'tower' bays with a chamfer between each storey, which originally contained closets. The original goit ran through a segmental arch in the middle of the mill. The interior, which has been much altered, was originally of timber construction but now features later cast iron replacement pillars.
Local climate
Calver Mill receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 69 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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