Italian Villa
Italian Villa, Jap Lane, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1088157
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Italian Villa
- Statutory Address:
- Italian Villa, Jap Lane, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1088157
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Italian Villa
- Statutory Address 1:
- Italian Villa, Jap Lane, 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:
- Italian Villa, Jap Lane, 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 25142 69943
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/02/2020
SK 24/2569-24/2570
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PARISH OF EDENSOR
JAP LANE
Italian Villa
(formerly listed as House west of Park View occupied by Mr Hubbuck, THE GREEN (south side), previously listed as House north of Post Office)
12.7.67
GV
II*
Reputed to have been an inn, now a house. Early C18, extensively remodelled c1830-40, probably by Paxton and Robertson. Rubblestone to rear, small blocks of coursed sandstone to front, with ashlar dressings and raised quoins. Dramatically overhanging Swiss Chalet style Welsh slate roof, supported on massive paired wooden brackets. Pair of ashlar gable stacks. Three storeys.
Chamfered plinth. Symmetrical north elevation of two bays. Central doorway with stepped, eared architrave and panelled door. Flanked by square windows with bead moulded ashlar surrounds with sills on paired brackets. Cross casements with round-arched glazing bars. Broad timber porch, open to north, and with splat baluster balustrade above. Tall first floor doorway with moulded architrave and segmental pediment. Panelled door. Flanked by two-light windows with bead moulded surrounds and square section mullions. Slab hoodmoulds on paired moulded brackets. Round-arched glazing bars. Two similar but smaller windows above again. The west gable end has two round-arched windows to ground floor with sills on square brackets and impost blocks. Tall decorative rectangular panels above and decorative corbelling to the base of the stack. Window to right with panelled jambs and bracketed slab hoodmould. Triplet of round-arched windows above. The rear elevation has a traditional tall staircase window.
Inside is an early C18 splat baluster dogleg staircase rising through three storeys.
Remodelled as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire.
Listing NGR: SK2514269943
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81684
- 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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