The Gate House and attached railings
The Gate House, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1088160
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Gate House and attached railings
- Statutory Address:
- The Gate House, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1088160
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Gate House and attached railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Gate House, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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 Gate House, 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 25108 70004
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/12/2019
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PARISH OF EDENSOR
Edensor
The Gate House and attached railings
(Formerly listed as Castle Lodge and attached railings, THE GREEN (west side), previously listed as Lodge at Northern Entrance to Village)
12.7.67
GV
II*
Lodge. 1842 by John Robertson. Coursed squared sandstone with battlemented parapet. Plain and fishscale tile roofs. Irregular plan and elevation with octagonal north east tower.
One and two storeys. Three bay east elevation. Tower to right has a flight of steps up to a doorway with chamfered surround, hoodmould and studded doors. Flanked by round-arched window and blind round-arched windows. Casement window above in chamfered surround flanked by blind cross loop arrow slits. To the left a recessed bay with single light casement to ground floor, in chamfered surround with returned hoodmould. Blind windows above. To the left again a projecting bay like a keep. Diagonal buttresses with two set-offs, and corbelled angle turrets. Stepped parapet. Three-light casement window in chamfered surround with returned hoodmould, and three-light window above with round-arched heads to the lights. To the south a single light window, a projecting bay with two-light window and beyond, a castellated and turreted wall. To the north a Tudor-arched window with wooden Y-tracery, and three-light casement window above, with returned hoodmould. Low coped wall with iron railings attached and enclosing the front garden.
Built as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire.
Listing NGR: SK2510870004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81691
- 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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