The Peacock Hotel
THE PEACOCK HOTEL, BAKEWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1045804
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Peacock Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE PEACOCK HOTEL, BAKEWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1045804
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Peacock Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PEACOCK HOTEL, BAKEWELL ROAD
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 PEACOCK HOTEL, BAKEWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rowsley
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 25600 65867
Details
PARISH OF ROWSLEY BAKEWELL ROAD SK 26 NE 5/176 (North Side) 29.9.51 The Peacock Hotel GV II* Hotel. Dated 1652, with later additions to rear. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and quoins. Stone slate roof with coped gables, plain kneelers, ashlar ridge and gable stacks. Crenellated parapet to porch. Chamfered plinth and first and second floor bands. Two storeys, L-plan. Twin gabled south elevation of 2-1-2 bays. Two storey projecting square porch has a semi-circular stone step up to a round arched doorway with moulded architrave and hoodmould enclosing a tympanum inscribed 16 IOHNSTE 52. Half glazed C19 door. VENSON 4-light recessed and chamfered mullion window above with a transom. The return walls of the porch have a recessed and chamfered cross window to each floor. The flanking gabled bays have 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion and transomed windows - two on the ground floor to the left and one to the right, and two each to the first floor. In each gable is a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window with hoodmould. In the centre a gabled roof dormer and on the porch parapet a stone peacock carved in the late C19 by Trevi's Bath. The ground floor windows have squared leaded lights, the upper windows diamond leaded lights. The west gable end has a 4-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transomed window and a similar cross window to the ground floor, a similar 4-light window above and a 3-light mullioned window with hoodmould above again. C19 bay to the north west in similar style. The east gable end has a 4-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transomed window to the ground and first floor and a 3-light mullioned window with hoodmould above. North east wing has to the east six bays of similar cross windows or 3-light windows.
Listing NGR: SK2560065867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81743
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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