Dorset House, attached Coach House and Walls

Dorset House, attached Coach House and Walls, Church Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334717
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: Dorset House, attached Coach House and Walls
Statutory Address:: Dorset House, attached Coach House and Walls, Church Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334717
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: Dorset House, attached Coach House and Walls
Statutory Address 1:: Dorset House, attached Coach House and Walls, Church Lane

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Dorset House, attached Coach House and Walls, Church Lane

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Derbyshire
District:: Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:: Beeley
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SK 26482 67605

Details

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SK 26 NE 5/35

PARISH OF BEELEY CHURCH LANE (South Side) Dorset House, attached Coach House & Walls

GV II

Vicarage, now house. 1856, said to be by G H Stokes. Gothic style. Coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings. Plain tile steeply pitched roofs. Coped gables with moulded kneelers. Two ashlar gable stacks, a ridge stack and a lateral stack. Two storeys. South elevation of three bays. To the left an external stack with to the ground floor a recessed segment pointed panel with chamfered surround, containing a two-light window with plate tracery.

To the right a four-light flat arched window with bar tracery. To the right again a C20 sun lounge not of special interest. Within, a doorway and three-light chamfered mullion window. Two three-light chamfered mullion windows above. Set in steep gables. The east bay is a slightly later addition. West elevation has a three-light traceried gothic window above with almost straight sides to arch. To the left a gothic doorway with double chamfered arch. Pair of half glazed doors and gothic overlight.

Gabled tower-like elevation above has a panel with inset shield and a single trefoil lancet. Side elevation of porch to left has five trefoiled lancets. North elevation has blocked porch entrance to right with trefoiled lancet set in. To the left a window of three trefoiled lancet lights. To the left again a small square window with encircled quatrefoil and a three-light chamfered mullion window. Large three-light staircase window above with bar tracery, flanked by two-light chamfered mullion windows in steep gables.

Chamfered coped wall to east encloses a courtyard entered by a gothic archway beneath a stepped gable. Coach house attached to east has a tripartite composition with steep pyramid roof over the centre. Central garage with C20 lean-to extension. Segmental arched window above in a steeply gabled half dormer. Broad segment headed entrance to left with pair of plank doors. To the right a doorway and a pair of segment headed windows.

The interior of the house is characteristic of the period. Staircase with solid balustrade pierced by a frieze of quatrefoils. Panelled door surrounds. Corresponding to the external stack is a fireplace with window immediately above, the flu being diverted to the right. Otherwise the chimneypieces are mostly renewed, but of the period.

Listing NGR: SK2648267605

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Legacy System number:: 81601
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.