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Diocesan Training College

March 3, 2019

by Hertes of England

Diocesan Training College

The Diocesan Training College, Uttoxeter New Road, Derby, is a 19th Century, Grade II listed,…

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Welcome to the Hertes of England historic building resource. We specialise in exploring the traditional buildings and vernacular architecture of the English Midlands. From timber-framed cottages to Victorian town houses and factories, we investigate a range of historic buildings and the skills, techniques and crafts that were used to create them.

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  • John Speed "Therein groweth a stone softer than Alablaster, but being burnt maketh a Plaister harder than..."

    John Speed
  • Sidney R. Jones "One only has to travel over the mountains and moors of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire..."

    Sidney R. Jones
  • Martin Heidegger "Whoever builds a house or a ship or forges a sacrificial chalice reveals what is..."

    Martin Heidegger
  • Carole Ryan "Vernacular building tradition is one based upon time-immeriorial building techniques and the use of materials,..."

    Carole Ryan

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In the heart of Derbyshire is the village of Cromf In the heart of Derbyshire is the village of Cromford where Richard Arkwright set up the world’s first water powered cotton mill (currently designated as a WHS). The two North Street terraces were built by Arkwright (1777) to house his workers and is thought to be the first planned industrial housing scheme anywhere in the world. Fashioned from the local gritstone, they included many significant architectural details, such as dressed stone door surrounds and sash leaded lights. However, their main architectural feature was a large studio window in the third storey attic, which was an open plan space designed as a weaver’s workshop to house framework knitting machines. #heritage #conservation #worldheritagesite #derbyshire #thelandmarktrust
At the northern extremities of Nottinghamshire is At the northern extremities of Nottinghamshire is the Welbeck Estate, which is the home of Welbeck Abbey and many other significant historic buildings. In the mid 19th Century, the 5th Duke of Portland embarked on a unique building programme across the estate that produced some of the most valued agricultural assets in the county. The Holbeck Riding School was completed in 1869 and was the second of the estate’s extremely important quadrangle plan stable blocks. Built with ashlar stone and cast-iron over two storeys, this structure, now used as a warehouse, comprises of 19 bays on the north and south elevations with projected central and outer bays that are symmetrically flanked by blind rusticated arches. It currently possesses a Grade II* designation. #heritage #welbeck #nottinghamshire
The Agricultural Revolution that swept through Eng The Agricultural Revolution that swept through England, during the 18th and 19th Centuries, generated large amounts of investment and development in both farmhouses and their ancillary buildings through new practices of land, livestock and crop management (a la Robert Bakewell). However, reasonably large farmsteads had existed in the English Midlands from a much earlier date. Along with Shropshire and Staffordshire, the county of Herefordshire had built up substantial pastoral and diary farms during the 16th and 17th Centuries. This example, near the current Welsh border, provides evidence of the use of vernacular materials (local stone and timber) at a scale that is indicative of a large commercial operation. The structure is an early ‘post and truss’ timber-frame (with oak weatherboarding) of the type that had started to replace smaller medieval cruck barns in the same region during the middle of the 16th Century. Whilst its 17th Century farmhouse with adjoining cow house and granary are currently designated as Grade II* and Grade II respectively, the barn, which could possibly date from much earlier, remains a non-designated asset! A programme of ‘dendro’ would settle the matter! #heritage #conservation #architecture #timberframe #agriculture #vernacular #herefordshire
The English Midlands harbours some very rare and b The English Midlands harbours some very rare and beautiful buildings, and this former Grammar School, built in the idiom of Georgian Gothic, is definitely on that list! Completed towards the end of the Georgian period (1828) by a local stonemason, it stands as a forerunner for the Gothick revival that was soon to follow. For all its grandeur, it is quietly tucked away behind St Mary’s Church in Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
While out in Nottinghamshire earlier this week, we While out in Nottinghamshire earlier this week, we made a pilgrimage to this sublime structure! It is a 14th Century dovecote located in the medieval village of Sibthorpe on the outskirts of Newark-on-Trent. Originally part of a medieval college settlement, it now stands as the centre piece to a much larger Scheduled Ancient Monument. Built around the mid 1300s, it is constructed of rubble stone with a conical, clay tiled roof and is the oldest and largest dovecote in the county. It was restored during the latter half of the 20th Century and has a Grade I designation. #heritage #nottinghamshire #medieval #sheduledancientmonument
Earlier today, we happened upon this extremely goo Earlier today, we happened upon this extremely good example of ‘tumbling’ brick design on a gable end of a former barn in Norwell, Nottinghamshire. Whilst this design is common in many parts of eastern England, it’s rare to see it this far into central England.
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