Barbrook Cottage

Barbrook Cottage, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1088190
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1967
List Entry Name:
Barbrook Cottage
Statutory Address:
Barbrook Cottage, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1088190
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Barbrook Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
Barbrook Cottage, 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Barbrook Cottage, 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 24855 69815

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/12/2019

SK 24/2569-24/2540
7/99

PARISH OF EDENSOR
MAIN STREET
Barbrook Cottage

(Formerly listed as Barbrook Cottage, DAISY BANK (west side), previously listed as House at Western End of Village)

12.7.67

GV
II
House. c1830-40, probably by Paxton and Robertson. Enlarged 1966 using materials from Paxton's own house, Barbrook House. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof with overhanging gables, decorative bargeboards and gableted timber finials. Ashlar ridge stack with angled projections, ashlar stack to rear. Two storeys.

East elevation of two plus one bays. Symmetrical two-bay part has a central doorway with plain ashlar surround and bracketed stone hood with decorative scrollwork above and two carved heads, presumably contemporary portraits. Panelled door. Flanked by two-light casement windows with projecting bracketed sills and returned hoodmoulds. Two smaller casements above have projecting sills and returned hoodmoulds, and between them a sunken panel with a shield in relief. Lower bay to right has a three-light casement to each floor, with projecting sill and returned hoodmould. The lower one has pointed arched lights. Gable end to north has a pointed arched doorway with panelled door.

Built as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire.

Listing NGR: SK2485569815

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
81667
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.

Ordnance survey map of Barbrook Cottage

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