Bowbridge House
BOWBRIDGE HOUSE, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109098
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bowbridge House
- Statutory Address:
- BOWBRIDGE HOUSE, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109098
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bowbridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWBRIDGE HOUSE, ASHBOURNE 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:
- BOWBRIDGE HOUSE, ASHBOURNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Amber Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mackworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 30222 38147
Details
SK 33 NW
6/78
13.2.67
PARISH OF MACKWORTH
ASHBOURNE ROAD
(South Side)
Bowbridge House
II
House. Early C18, mid-C18 and mid-C19. Red brick with sandstone
dressings. Plain tile roofs, hipped to south east. Five brick
ridge and gable stacks. Two storeys. East elevation of three
plus one bays. Three bay mid-C18 part has the centre bay advanced
and pedimented. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Ground floor has
recessed porch between broad mid-C19 bays with parapets and each
with broad tripartite glazing bar sashes. Within the porch a
Venetian doorway with half glazed door. First floor has a central
Venetian window with alternately raised voussoirs around the
arch and pieces of entablature over the side windows. Glazing
bar sashes. Flanked on each side by glazing bar sashes under
channelled stone lintels with raised keyblocks. Projecting C19
bay to right has tripartite glazing bar sash to the ground floor
and a single glazing bar sash above, under a stone lintel.
South elevation has a two storey canted bay with glazing bar
sashes, and a C19 conservatory or greenhouse. Irregular gabled
west elevation, with glazing bar sashes under stone lintels.
Interior: Open string staircase with carved tread ends and two
turned balusters per tread. Probably altered in C19. Two late
C18 chimneypieces. Raised and fielded panelled doors. In the
back part of the house, possibly C17, moulded beams. The house
was at some time the dower house to Markeaton Hall.
Listing NGR: SK3022238147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78918
- 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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