Chartered surveyors in Derbyshire

Our Derbyshire is two different counties. In the north-west, Glossop, New Mills and Chapel-en-le-Frith sit on the gritstone edge of the Peak, and between a quarter and a third of the homes around each pre-date 1900: solid stone walls under slate, built to shed Pennine weather, where damp, pointing and anything put over the stone to seal it are the first things read. In the east, from Chesterfield down through Alfreton and Ripley to Heanor and Ilkeston on the Erewash, the housing sits close to the national mix and the history is coal and iron, so dating each house properly comes first, and any cracking or distortion is read against the mining record where that history warrants it. Across the county the pre-1900 share is the largest single era, which is what the stone towns contribute. Rivers run through both halves, the Goyt and the Etherow in the west and the Derwent, the Rother and the Erewash in the east, and homes on low ground are checked against the flood map.

Chris Bloor MRICS · CJ Bloor Property Consultants