Property For Sale Mount Zion, The Green, Middleton, Wirksworth, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 4LW

Property For Sale Mount Zion, The Green, Middleton, Wirksworth, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 4LW

Guide Price £425,000

Mount Zion, The Green, Middleton, Wirksworth, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 4LW

If you're looking for a home with wow factor, look no further.  An incredibly stylish, beautifully and lovingly converted Chapel originally built in 1904.  The space is substantial and versatile. With underfloor heating throughout, this light, bright home has everything any family could need.

The huge old chapel front door opens into a very useful inner lobby area with plenty of storage space.  A wide opening leads to a stylish space which is multifunctional with a black limestone floor covering.  The whole house incorporates limestone or solid wood flooring with a wet underfloor heating system.   Steps lead down into the enormous open plan living area with cream limestone flooring throughout.   The space is substantial but is very cleverly divided which makes it surprisingly cosy.  There is a lovely sitting area and wood burning stove, leading into the kitchen and dining area with doors directly off into the courtyard.

Middleton by Wirksworth (so called to distinguish it from another Middleton near to Youlgrave) is perched high on a hillside above Wirksworth and Cromford.

Founded in Saxon times as a farming hamlet around an unusually high spring, the village developed in the 17th and 18th centuries as a lead-mining centre (like nearby Wirksworth) and a few of the older buildings in the upper part of the village date from this period. 

The arrival in 1825 of the Cromford and High Peak Railway, which passes just below the village, brought rapid change. Middleton sits on some of the purest limestone in Europe, and the ability to transport this stone meant that large quarries developed all around the village and higgledy-piggledy groups of quarrymens' cottages spread across the hillside. Among other things, Middleton stone is noted for being used for WWI war gravestones.

The quarries around the village closed in the late 20th century and Middleton is now more of a commuter village with some light industry centred around the former quarries.

The village is spread out around a long main street with several narrow sections where it passes between old buildings. There are two pubs and a post office, plus a nice Victorian church and several Non-Conformist chapels, only one of which is still active. 

DH Lawrence spent a year here living in a cottage on the road down to the Via Gellia to the north of Middleton.