Top House
TOP HOUSE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088174
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Top House
- Statutory Address:
- TOP HOUSE, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088174
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Top House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOP HOUSE, MAIN 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:
- TOP HOUSE, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pilsley
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 24143 70938
Details
PARISH OF PILSLEY MAIN ROAD SK 27 SW 2/159 (North Side) Top House GV II House. c1838-40, probably by Joseph Paxton, for the Devonshire estate. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings. Overhanging Welsh slate roof with decorative wooden bargeboards. Paired diamond ashlar gable stacks. T-plan. Two storeys. South elevation of two plus one bays. Symmetrical two bay part has angle quoins. Central gabled porch with decorative bargeboards and finial. Segmental pointed arched doorway with slight chamfer. Pair of half glazed doors. Flanked by 2-light casement windows deeply set in plain ashlar surrounds. Arched lights to the casements. Two similar windows above, in gabled half dormers with decorative bargeboards. Lower wing to right has a similar 4-light window. Similar fenestration to rear wing.
Listing NGR: SK2414370938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81726
- 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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