Shaw House
SHAW HOUSE, ROBINSON'S HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096368
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Shaw House
- Statutory Address:
- SHAW HOUSE, ROBINSON'S HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096368
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Shaw House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAW HOUSE, ROBINSON'S HILL
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:
- SHAW HOUSE, ROBINSON'S HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 37894 24820
Details
SK 32 SE PARISH OF MELBOURNE ROBINSON'S HILL 5/166 (North Side) 18.2.71 Shaw House GV II House. 1793 and 1839 to 1842 with minor later alterations. Stuccoed brick with stone dressings and red brick. Hipped plain tile roof with brick side and ridge stacks plus moulded cornice to front range and plain tiled roof with gable stacks and dentilled eaves band to rear range. Early C19 front range has three storeys and four bays, whilst C18 rear wing has two storeys and three bays. Main elevation has a Tuscan columned porch with panelled door and traceried overlight, and three glazing bar sashes below cambered rusticated wedge lintels, two to south and one to north. Beyond to north there its large late C19 conservatory with a long ridge lantern topped by iron cresting, covering two C20 glazed doors. Above there are four glazing bar sashes below similar lintels and above again there are four smaller sashes without lintels. Rear wing has a central segment headed doorcase with panelled door and divided overlight, covered by a C20 rustic wooden porch. To either side there are segment headed windows, that to west with two adjoining glazing bar sashes and that to east with small paned casement. Above there is a central segment headed glazing bar sash and to either side there are pairs of glazing bar sashes set in segment headed openings. Interior has an early C19 Gothick stone fireplace to southern room and a wide C18 fireplace with moulded mantleshelf to eastern room of C18 wing. There is also an C18 staircase through three floors in rear wing and two early C19 fireplaces in the western rooms of this part. Melbourne Hall records show that this house was built for Samuel Robinson in 1793 and that it was extended partly at the Robinson's expense from 1839 to 1842. Samuel Robinson is regarded as the founder of the market garden industry in Melbourne.
Listing NGR: SK3789424820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83150
- 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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