The area to the north and northwest of the centre of the city of Derby, England, contains 76 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, ten are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area is largely residential, and it contains some industry, mainly in former silk mills, and the Midland Railway had a goods yard in the area. Most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures. Some of the former mills are listed, together with buildings in the Midland Railway goods yard. The other listed buildings include churches and chapels, public houses and a hotel, shops, bridges, the remains of a cross, a well, a convent, street bollards, war memorials and a telephone kiosk.
The cross, probably originally a plague cross, was moved to its present site in 1979. It is in stone, and consists of a fragment of a tapered stone shaft, on a large square base with three steps.[2][3]
The chapel, which has been restored, originally stood on a bridge, most of which has been replaced. At the south end is a timber framedgable under which is a Perpendicular window, and there are similar windows on the sides.[4][5]
Three steps lead down to a small stone with a jet of water. In the 18th century, a low stone wall was added on the right side, and there are iron railings on three sides.[6][7]
The house has been altered and extended through the centuries. The older part is timber framed and encased in red brick, the rest of the house is in red brick, and the roof is tiled. There are two storeys, a U-shaped plan, and two massive external sandstone chimneys. Most of the windows are 19th-century casements.[8][9]
An additional wing was added on the left in the early 19th century. The building is in red brick with stone dressings, floor bands, and a slate roof. The left wing has plain eaves, the right wing has a copedparapet, and the windows are replacements. On the front is a Roman Doricportico with two columns and two pilasters, and a triglyphfrieze with paterae.[10]
The building is in red brick, the lower part in stone on a small plinth, and the roof is tiled. There are two storeys and a T-shaped plan. On the front is a blocked doorway with a depressed arch, and above is a blocked rectangular opening. To the sides are mullioned windows in the ground floor and modern windows above.[11][12][13]
The house is in red brick on a stone plinth, with a tile roof. There are two storeys, a rectangular plan, and three bays. In each floor is arcaded banding over three round-headed recesses containing casement windows. The gable ends contain brick ornament, and a single window in each floor.[8][14]
No. 4, formerly a public house, later a shop, it is in painted cement, with rendered brick string courses, and a tile roof with a copedgable. There are two storeys and an attic, and two bays, with a modern shop front in the ground floor and casement windows above. No. 4A to the right is an early 19th-century cottage with an earlier core, two storeys and a single bay, a shop front in the ground floor, and a casement window above.[15]
The public house is in painted brick with a tile roof, two storeys and an attic. The gable end faces the street, and contains four bands of moulded brick, a doorway, various windows, and a datestone in the gable apex.[16][12]
The house is in red brick with stone dressings, moulded brick floor bands, and a tile roof. There are three storeys and a T-shaped plan. The windows are sashes, most with channelled wedge lintels and triple keystones.[17][18]
A house in red brick with stone dressings, on a stone plinth, with a slate roof. There are two storeys, the front facing the road has four bays, and it contains a small doorway in the left bay. The right return has three bays, the middle bay projecting, with a cornice, a shallow parapet, and two ball finials. This bay contains a recessed semicircular doorway with a radial fanlight, imposts and a keystone. The windows are sashes, most with segmental-arched heads.[19]
A red brick house in a terrace, on a plinth, with stone dressings, a modillioneavescornice, and a tile roof. There are three storeys and three bays. In the right bay is a round-headed doorway with pilasters, a traceriedfanlight, impost blocks, and an open pediment. To its left are two shop windows, and the other windows are sashes with flat brick arches.[21]
A shop in painted brick with a modillioneavescornice, a parapet and a tile roof. There are three storeys and three bays. In the ground floor is a modern shop front, and the upper floors contain sash windows.[22]
A red brick house on a plinth, with stone dressings, a mouldedeavescornice, and a small parapet. There are three storeys and three bays, the middle bay projecting slightly. In the centre is a round-headed doorway with engaged Tuscan columns, a traceriedfanlight, and a moulded pediment. The windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with channelled wedge lintels and keystones, and the window above the doorway with a moulded surround.[23]
A red brick house with stone dressings, floor and sill bands, a modillioneavescornice, a small parapet, and a tile roof. There are three storeys, a symmetrical front of three bays, and a single-bay wing recessed on the right. Four steps lead up to a central doorway that has Roman Doricpilasters, a semicircular traceriedfanlight with a keystone, and an open pediment The doorway is flanked by Venetian windows. In the middle floor is an arcade of three stone arches, and the windows are sashes, in the main block with moulded surrounds, the window above the doorway with a cornice.[24][25]
A red brick house with stone dressings, a mouldedeavescornice, and a slate roof. There are three storeys and four bays, the right bay slightly recessed, and containing a rusticated segmental coach arch. In the second bay, steps lead up to a round-arched doorway containing a recessed door with a semicircular fanlight, above which is decorative brickwork and a cornice. The windows are sashes with channelled wedge lintels and triple keystones.[26]
A pair of red brick houses with stone dressings, on a plinth, with a mouldedcornice. No. 56 has a slate roof, and No. 57 a roof of modern tiles. There are three storeys and each house has five bays. In the centre of each house is a doorway with a semicircular traceriedfanlight, and a pediment on consoles. The windows are sashes with channelled wedge lintels and triple keystones.[27]
A red brick house with stone dressings, on a stone plinth, with a mouldedcornice and a slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The central doorway has a rectangular three-light fanlight and a hood, and the windows are sashes.[28]
A pair of red brick houses with stone dressings, a modillioneavescornice and a tile roof. There are three storeys and six bays, and the windows are sashes. Each house has a doorway in its left bay; the left doorway has a reeded surround and a hood on brackets, and the right doorway has a semicircular fanlight and a pediment on consoles.[29]
A house designed by Joseph Pickford in Palladian style, later extended and used for other purposes. The front is in stone, the ground floor rusticated, the rest of the building is in red brick, and the roof is slated. The main building has three storeys and seven bays. The ground floor has a recessed round arch in each bay, the middle bay containing a doorway, and the outer bays sash windows. In the upper floors, the middle three bays are flanked by attached Roman Ionic columns, the bays contain balustraded panels, and at the top is a pediment. The windows in the central three bays of the middle floor have alternating segmental and triangular pediments, and in the outer bays they have cornices. At the top of the house is a plain frieze, a modillion cornice, and five cast iron urns. Attached to the house are the later extensions, and in front of the house is a stone wall.[32][33]
A house designed by Joseph Pickford for himself, later a museum called Pickford's House, it is in red brick with stone dressings, floor bands, a modillioncornice, an open pediment surmounted by urns, and a slate roof. There are three storeys and five bays, the middle three bays projecting slightly, and the centre bay containing a three-storey recessed round-headed arch. Five steps lead up to the central doorway that has Roman Doric engaged columns, side lights and pilasters, a traceriedfanlight, a frieze decorated with architectural drawing instruments, and a modillion pediment. The windows are sashes, those in the middle three bays with moulded surrounds, and those in the middle floor with balustrades under the sills.[34][35]
The house is in red brick on a plinth, with stone dressings, two storeys, five bays, and a single-bay addition on the right. In the centre is a doorway with engaged Tuscan columns, a semicircular traceriedfanlight, a frieze with medallion ornament, and a mouldedpediment. The windows are sashes with rusticated wedge lintels and keystones. In the addition is an arched recess containing a circular window.[2][36]
A red brick house in a terrace with stone dressings, a modillioneavescornice and a slate roof. There are three storeys and a symmetrical front of five bays, the middle bay projecting slightly. In the centre is a doorway with a moulded surround, a traceried semicircular fanlight, and a moulded pediment on consoles. The windows are sashes with flat brick arches and keystones.[24][37]
A building on a corner site in red brick with stone dressings, on a stone plinth, with a sill band. There are three storeys, five bays on Friar Gate and three on Bridge Street. On both fronts are round-headed recesses containing doorways with radial fanlights, on Friar Gate is a smaller round-arched doorway, and the windows are sashes.[38]
A building on a corner site in red brick with stone dressings, on a stone plinth, with modillionedeaves and a cornice and a half-hippedslate roof. There are three storeys, three bays on Friar Gate and three on Bridge Street. On Friar Gate is a doorway with a hood, on Bridge Street is a projecting canted bay. In the angle is a porch with a column on the left, rusticatedquoins on the right, and a round-arched doorway.[39]
A house in red brick with a tile roof. There are three storeys and four bays. In front of the two right bays is a projecting modern porch. The windows in the lower two floors are sashes, and in the top floor they are casements.[2][40]
A house in red brick with stone dressings, a sill band and a tile roof. There are three storeys and four bays. The doorway has a rectangular fanlight and a hood. The left bay contains a square bay window, and the other windows are sashes with keystones.[41]
A red brick house with stone dressings, and three storeys. In the centre is a tall recessed blind round arch flanked by three-light sash windows, each with a frieze and a cornice, in the lower two floors, and semicircular -arched windows in the top floor. To the left is a round-arched doorway, and to the right is a lower recessed bay containing a two-light window.[2][42]
A red brick house at the end of a terrace, on a plinth, with stone dressings, sill bands, and a modillioneavescornice. There are three storeys and five bays. In the centre is a round-headed doorway with engaged Tuscan columns, a radial fanlight, a frieze and a modillion cornice. The windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with external shutters, the windows above the doorway with shaped surrounds, and the window in the middle floor with a pulvinated frieze and a pediment. On the right return is a large openwork gilded clock face.[43][44]
The former chapel is in freestone, and has a gabled front and a parapet. There are two storeys and a front of three bays. The central doorway has a round-arched head and a semicircular fanlight, above it is an inscribed tablet, and the windows are sashes that have lintels with shaped soffits. At the rear is the minister's house, in red brick, with two storeys, two bays, and a hippedslate roof. The doorway has pilasters and a rectangular fanlight, and the windows are sashes.[45][46]
A porch was added to the meeting house in 1855. The building is in stone with coved eaves and a hippedslate roof. There is a single storey and a rectangular plan, with a front of five bays containing four tall round-arched windows.[47][48]
A silk mill that was enlarged and later converted for residential use, it is in red brick with slate roofs. The south mill was a ribbon mill, and has eight storeys with pedimentedparapets, and fronts of twelve and four bays. The north mill was a throwing mill, and has seven storeys, a hipped roof and fronts of nine and two bays. The middle mill, a weaving mill, has five storeys and twelve bays, and the other buildings include a former office wing to the north, a counting house, a manager's house and a public house. In the courtyard are the former engine house, boiler house, and the base of a hexagonal chimney stack.[49][50]
A row of cottages, with an earlier core, converted into shops. They are in painted cement, with plain eaves, a tile roof, two storeys and four bays. In the ground floor are 19th-century shop fronts, and the upper floor contains three casement windows and a horizontally- sliding sash window.[52]
A detached house in red brick, stuccoed on the front, with stone dressings, a wide mouldedeavescornice and a slate roof. There are two storeys and a front of three bays. In the centre is a doorway with a stuccoed reeded surround, a rectangular fanlight, and a cornice hood on brackets. The right bay contains a two-storey oval bay window, and the other windows are sashes.[54]
A stuccoed house with stone dressings, a wide mouldedeavescornice and a slate roof. There are two storeys and two bays. The right bay contains a two-storey oval bay window, and in the left bay is a doorway with a stuccoed reeded surround, a rectangular fanlight, and a sash window above.[55]
A row of red brick houses with stone dressings, a sill band, and a copedparapet. There are three storeys and seven bays. On the front are three round-arched doorways with stuccoed surrounds and radial fanlights, and the windows are a mix of sashes and casements.[56]
A pair of red brick houses with stone dressings, on a plinth, with two storeys and six bays. The windows are sashes with wedge lintels and keystones. The left doorway has Tuscan half-columns, a three light fanlight, and a cornice, and the right doorway has stuccoedpilasters, a three-light fanlight, and a cornice hood on consoles.[57]
A terrace of houses in red brick with stone dressings, a sill band and a slate roof. There are two storeys and each house has two bays. In the right bay of each house is a doorway with pilasters, a rectangular fanlight and a hood, and the windows are sashes with wedge lintels. In front of the houses are stone slab forecourt walls with railings.[58]
The building, which probably originated in the 17th century, is in red brick with plain eaves and a tile roof. There are two storeys, two bays and a lower bay to the right. The windows in the left part are sashes, and in the right part is a casement window. The doorway, which has a rectangular fanlight, and the ground floor windows, have cambered heads.[59]
A row of four shops and a house that are rendered, painted and roughcast, on a plinth, with stone dressings, mouldedeaves and a tile roof with copedgables. There are three storeys and nine bays. In the ground floor are four shop fronts, and in the left bay is a doorway with a rectangular fanlight and a cornice hood on consoles. The windows are sashes with moulded surrounds.[60]
The bollards at the entry to Well Street from North Parade are in cast iron. They are cylindrical and tapering, with bands, and at the top is a knob-shaped cap.[61]
A stone-faced house with corner pilasters, a mouldedcornice, a small parapet and a slate roof. There are three storeys and three bays. In the centre, steps lead up to a porch with Greek Doric columns, and the windows are sashes, those in the outer bays of the two lower floors tripartite.[62]
The hotel is roughcast, and has a mouldedeavescornice, a small parapet and a slate roof. There are two storeys and a front of five bays, the middle bay projecting slightly. In the centre is a porch with paired Doric columns, a frieze and a cornice, and a doorway with a moulded surround and side lights. The windows are sashes.[2][64]
The house is in stone on the east and south fronts, and in whitewashed brick elsewhere, and it has a hipped tile roof. There are two storeys, a south front of three bays, four bays on the sides, and a lower rear wing. On the front is a Doric porch, on which is a glazed canopy with a curving roof on decorative cast iron brackets. On the west, garden, front is a cantedbay window, and the other windows are sashes with louvred shutters.[67][68]
A terrace of five stuccoed houses with bold lined eaves and a slate roof. There are two storeys and eleven bays. Each house has a recessed doorway with a rectangular fanlight, and a two-storey cantedbay window with three lights, and the other windows are sashes.[69]
A row of stone houses with rusticatedquoins, a sill band, an ornamental frieze and eaves, and a dentilled eaves cornice. There are three storeys and a symmetrical front of eleven bays, the middle three bays projecting slightly under a dentilled pediment. In the centre of the outer sections are paired porches with round-arched openings, pilasters, a frieze and a cornice. The middle section contains a doorway with a rectangular fanlight and a cornice on consoles. The windows are sashes, with cornices on consoles in the ground and middle floors, and those in the middle section with alternate segmental and triangular pediments.[24][73]
The house is in engraved stucco with angle pilasters, an eavescornice and blocking course, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and five bays, and a two-bay rear wing on the left. The porch has Ionic columns, and the windows are sashes.[74]
The house designed by H. I. Stevens is in Italianate style. It is stone-faced, the ground floor rusticated, with bold eaves and a blocking course. There are three storeys and four bays. In the second bay is a porch with pilasters and a cornice, and a round-arched entrance with a volutedkeystone. Within the porch, steps lead up to a round-headed doorway with a semicircular fanlight, and in the right bay is a small round-arched doorway. The windows in the ground floor are tripartite, and in the upper floors are sash windows, those in the middle floor with arched cornices on consoles.[24][75]
The mill, later used for other purposes, is in red brick on a stone plinth, with stone dressings, chamferedeaves, and a hippedslate roof. It is a narrow building with four storeys, a north front of five bays, and a single bay on the east end facing the street. The windows are casements with stone lintels, and in the ground floor is a segmental-arched cart entrance.[49][76]
A pair of stuccoed houses with pilasters, a sill band, bold lined eaves, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and four bays. At each end is a semi-elliptical bay window, and between are tripartite windows. The doorways are on the sides; No. 50 has a stuccoed porch with pilasters, and No. 48 has a modern porch and a doorway with a mouldedarchitrave and a rectangular fanlight.[77]
The south aisle was added to the church in 1897. The church is built in stone with a Welsh slate roof, and has a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave, north and south aisles, a north porch, north and south transepts, a chancel and a northeast tower. The tower has three stages, stepped buttresses, and a southeast stair turret with a finial spire. On the north side is a porch with a pointed doorway, in the middle stage is a single-light window, the bell openings have two lights, and at the top is a parapet with crocketedpinnacles.[78][79]
A terrace of four stuccoed houses on a painted stone plinth, with stone dressings, a sill band, wood bracketed eaves, and a slate roof with a copedgable on the right. There are two storeys, and each house has two bays. Stone steps lead up to a doorway in the right bay of each house that has a semicircular-arched head, pilasters, and a fanlight. The windows are sashes in mouldedarchitraves.[80]
A terrace of four houses in red brick with stone dressings, corner pilasters, a sill band, moulded bracketed eaves, a slate roof, and three storeys. The doorways have round-arched heads, they are in double recesses, and have imposts, a semicircular fanlight and a keystone. Most of the windows are sashes, those in the ground floor have keystones, and are set in segmental-arched recesses with imposts and a keystone, and those in the middle floor with flat heads and keystones. In front of the forecourt is a high retaining stone wall on which are elaborate cast iron railings, and at the ends are plain stone gate piers.[81]
The house on a corner site is in red brick with stone dressings, plain eaves and a slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The central doorway has a cornice, to its right is a square bay window, and the upper floor contains sash windows with channelled wedge lintels. Extending from the left of the house is a later single storey extension with shop windows on the front and left return.[83]
The accumulator tower, built for the Midland Railway, is in red brick on a blue brick chamferedplinth, with dressings in white and blue brick, white brick corner pilaster strips, floor bands, an eavescornice and a slate roof. There are two storeys and a square plan, and single storey pavilions to the east. The windows have rusticated round-arched heads and complex metal glazing.[78][84]
The goods shed, built for the Midland Railway, and later converted for other uses, is in red brick with stone dressings and an M-shaped slate roof with overhanging eaves. Along the sides are alternating groups of three round-headed windows and large loading entrances. At each end is a central train entrance divided into three by square cast iron columns, flanked by single round-headed windows, at the south end also flanked by projecting lower office wings with round-headed windows and doors.[78][85]
The former warehouse, built for the Midland Railway, is in red brick with stone dressings, dentilledeaves, and a slate roof with copedgables. There are four storeys and five bays, the middle and outer bays recessed. The other bays have pediments, the right containing a circular clock face and the left with a circular inscribed plaque. In the ground floor is a doorway and windows, all with round-arched rusticated heads. The upper floors contain windows with one, two or three lights, some with stone lintels.[78][86]
The church is built in dark red brick with Welsh slate roofs. It consists of a nave and a chancel under a continuous roof, a clerestory, low narrow north and south aisles and chapels, a southwest porch and a southwest turret. At the west end are three lancet windows, with two similar windows above and a roundel over them. The clerestory windows are round-arched and contain roundels, and most of the other windows are lancets. The turret has a wooden bellcote, and a pyramidal roof with lucarnes and an iron finial.[87][88]
The building, at the end of a terrace, is in red brick with stone dressings and an eaves cornice, with the gable end facing the road. There are three storeys and two bays. In the ground floor is a modern shop front, the upper floors contain two-light mullioned and transomed windows, those in the middle floor with iron guards, and in the gable apex is a quatrefoil in a square surround.[89]
The house, at one time a school, is in red brick with stone dressings, a sill band, a mouldedcornice, a parapet and a slate roof. There are three storeys and eight bays, the middle four bays projecting slightly. In the centre is a stuccoed porch attached to a three-bay bay window. The porch has Greek Ionic columns, above which is a frieze and a cornice. The doorway has pilasters, a rectangular fanlight, a frieze and a cornice, and the windows are sashes with channelled wedge lintels and triple keystones.[2][93]
The house is in roughcast red brick, with a tile roof, two storeys and an attic, and an irregular plan. The roof has an almost pyramidal shape, and in the hips at the front is set a four-light dormer. The upper floor contains a ten-light window breaking through the eaves, and in the ground floor are bay windows set at 45 degrees. On the north front is a two-storey tower and a single-storey porch. The east front has two doorways and a five-light window above, and to the rear is a single-storey service range.[67][94]
The stone retaining wall to the elevated section of pavement along the east side of Duffield Road extends for about 380 yards (350 m), and is between 6 feet (1.8 m) and 2 feet 6 inches (0.76 m) high. It is surmounted by tapered, knob-headed cast iron standards linked by a single rail and a spiked iron chain.[95]
The war memorial, by the entrance to St Paul's Church, is in granite. It consists of a tapering rectangular obelisk on a base of two steps. It is surmounted by a Latin cross inscribed with the christogram "IHS". On the base is an inscription, and on the front of the obelisk are the names of those lost in the First World War. Set into the flanking walls are two tablets with inscriptions, and the names of those lost in the Second World War.[96]
The war memorial, designed by Reginald Blomfield, is in Portland stone, and commemorates the former pupils of Derby Grammar School who were lost in the two World Wars. It consists of an octagonal base of three moulded steps and a canted square base carrying a square pedestal, with an inscribed stone tablet on one face and bronze plaques on the others, and a moulded cornice. On the pedestal is a square obelisk on four balls, with a bronze wreath on the front, and bronze plaques on the other sides.[32][97]
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