Rock Villa
Rock Villa, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052323
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Villa
- Statutory Address:
- Rock Villa, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052323
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Villa
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rock Villa, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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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:
- Rock Villa, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Edensor
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 24897 69860
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/12/2019
SK 24/2569-24/2570
7/98
PARISH OF EDENSOR
MAIN STREET
Rock Villa
(Formerly listed as Rock Villa, DAISY BANK (north side))
GV
II
House. Dated 1839. Probably by Paxton and Robertson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Diamond pattern stone slate roof, overhanging on paired timber brackets. Ashlar stacks. Plain first floor band.
T-plan, two storeys, three bay south elevation has central projecting gabled bay with moulded cornice and decorative bargeboards. The ground floor has a round-arched window rising to a decorative point above and flanked by blind lancets with raised ashlar heads. Two-light casement window with fanlight. The return wall to the left has round-arched doorway with panelled door and traceried fanlight, flanked by blind rectangular lights with plain ashlar surrounds. To the left a two-light casement with ashlar surround with overhanging returned hoodmould. Return wall to right has a round-arched doorway with a two-light casement window set in. Traceried fanlight. Flanked by blind rectangular lights with plain ashlar surrounds. To the right is a broad two-light window with plain ashlar surround and mullion. Decorative cresting above.
The first floor has a central tripartite window, flat-arched, with plain ashlar surround. In the return wall to the left a plain rectangular window and to the left a pointed arched window with cross casement and ashlar surround. Return wall to right has a plain rectangular window, and to the right a moulded rectangular panel bearing the date 1839, with decorative cresting above. The gable end to the west has a castellated canted bay window and a blind lancet above.
Built as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire.
Listing NGR: SK2489769860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chadwick, GF, The Works of Sir Joseph Paxton, (1961)
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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