Monument record MDR3523 - Lumford Mill, west of Holme Hall, Bakewell

Grade II listed building [slightly to the south of the current mill] which was part of the cotton mill and now offices. It is dated from the late 18th century or very early 19th century. It was constructed of deeply-coursed dressed sandstone with a welsh slate roof. The exterior is three storeys, with an 8-window range. Richard Arkwright leased the site in 1777 and, after resolving difficulties over the water rights, built the mill for his son Richard. By 1821 it employed 350 people under the management of Richard and Peter Arkwright. It then had various later 19th century owners. The main mill building was rebuilt after a fire in 1868. (1, 2) Lumford cotton mill, built in 1777, the third of the Derbyshire Arkwright Mills. The original building was damaged in 1867 and rebuilt incorporating the earlier mill. It continued in use as a cotton mill until 1897. The 1827 water wheelcontinued in use until 1955. (4) The water management system is a scheduled monument. (5) To the north of the site there is a gasometer shown on the 1898 Ordnance Survey map. (6) The plans of the earlier mill are deposited in the Derbyshire Record Office. (7) Truncated remains of former Arkwright cotton mill, origninally of 1777, on the R. Wye, largely destroyed by fire 1868. The main surviving structure is a three storey gritstone buidling with slate roof to the left of the entrance. Only part of the one storey remains of the 18th century mill and an old gritstone chimney. (8) Lumford Mill was essentially a plain, T-shaped box in which all the mill's functions might be housed; this produced the characteristically early typological form in which the effective space of the working floors was reduced by the need to accommodate a stair and counting house (or similar room.) Lumford's water source ownership brought Arkwright into conflict with the Duke of Rutland, who owned adjacent lands and claimed that Arkwright had infringed his water rights. (9)