The Dcc Library
THE DCC LIBRARY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040034
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Dcc Library
- Statutory Address:
- THE DCC LIBRARY, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-08-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/00835/33
- Rights:
- © Mr John Clarke. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040034
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Dcc Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DCC LIBRARY, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE DCC LIBRARY, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dronfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 35001 78470
Details
PARISH OF DRONFIELD HIGH STREET SK 37 NW - SK 37 NE 5/42 - 6/42 (South Side) The DCC Library 9.1.67 (formerly listed as The Manor House) GV II County Council Library, formerly the Manor House. c1700, with later alterations and additions; converted to library and offices 1967. Coursed squared coal measures sandstone with ashlar dressings, rising from a shallow chamfered plinth. Moulded eaves cornice with bold brackets, and a hipped slated roof. Two storeys and basement, seven bays 3-1-3, with advanced entrance porch of two storeys, the doorway having a semi- circular headed moulded surround, impost blocks and keyblock with flanking pilasters and a flattened pulvinated entablature enclosing the opening. Window openings, formerly 2-light flush mullions with transoms, now with glazing bar sashes, four x four panes, set in old stone surrounds. Moulded stringcourse to the heads of the ground floor windows. The entrance is approached by semi-circular steps. The rear and north elevations retain mullioned and transomed openings. Interior, much altered, but retaining C17 square oak panelling, and C17 oak turned baluster stair with ball finials to posts and a moulded handrail. The house was built for Ralph Burton, Lord of the Manor, whose father Francis purchased the earlier house from Lionel Fanshawe, 1674. The house passed to the Rossington family, who sold it to John Rotherham in 1750. Inherited 1295 by Joseph Cecil. Sold to the local authority in the 1930s. Source: The Derbyshire Country House, Vol II. Craven and Maxwell.
Listing NGR: SK3500178470
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79522
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Craven, M, Stanley, M, The Derbyshire Country House, (1982)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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