Description

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SK 17 SE
3/44

PARISH OF LITTON
CRESSBROOK UPPER LANE (North side)
No 59 - 62 Top Cottages (Consec)

GV
II

Terrace of four mill-workers' cottages. c1843 probably by Weightman & Hadfield. Coursed squared limestone with gritstone dressings and quoins. Welsh slate roof with central group of four stone ridge stacks and two further ridge stacks. Single storey plus attic storey. Symmetrical four bay south elevation. Doorway on the left with stone bracketed hood. To the right a three-light chamfered mullion window with dripmould. To the right a similar doorway and window. The right hand two bays a mirror image of the left two. Four two-light dormer windows above with wooden bargeboards and finials. Most windows have their original diamond lights.

The cottages form part of the mill settlement, built to serve Cressbrook Mill. They form part of a symmetrical composition with Nos 63 - 65 and Nos 66 - 69 Top Cottages.

Listing NGR: SK1690473134

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26452466

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)