Description

PARISH OF CALVER KINGSGATE
SK 27 SW
2/51 (North Side)
12.7.67 Calver Mill
GV II
Cotton mill now Sissons factory. 1803-4. Coursed squared
gritstone, rock-faced gritstone and ashlar. Stone slate and
cement tile hipped roofs. T-plan with additional C20 wing to
north not of special interest. Six storeys with a two storey
late C19 wing to west. South elevation of 9-2-9 bays, the
middle two a projecting staircase and office wing. Rock-faced
ground floor, large ashlar lintels forming continuous bands
between areas of smaller coursed stone. Six tiers of glazing
bar sashes to each bay, with projecting sills. To the ground
floor the west return wall of the staircase wing has a round-
arched doorway with key and impost blocks, plank doors and
traceried fanlight. Also a C20 doorway with steel hood. In the
first bay to the west is a sliding plank door. The ground floor
to the eastern nine bays has an addition of 1947 not of special
interest. Similar glazing bar sashes to the two bay staircase
wing and its three-bay return elevations. Late C19 wing to west
has six bays of similar glazing bar sashes to its two floors.
North elevation originally with nineteen bays of glazing bar
sashes now interrupted by C20 additions. Octagonal 'tower' bays
at each end with a chamfer between each storey. These
originally contained closets. The original goit ran through a
segmental arch in the middle of the mill. The much altered
interior was of timber construction with later cast iron
replacement pillars.

Listing NGR: SK2470974549

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26321350

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)