Tamworth House

TAMWORTH HOUSE, TAMWORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1109119
Date first listed:
13-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Tamworth House
Statutory Address:
TAMWORTH HOUSE, TAMWORTH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1109119
Date first listed:
13-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Tamworth House
Statutory Address 1:
TAMWORTH HOUSE, TAMWORTH STREET

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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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:
TAMWORTH HOUSE, TAMWORTH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Amber Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Duffield
National Grid Reference:
SK 34360 43465

Details

SK 34 43
7/25
13.2.67

PARISH OF DUFFIELD
TAMWORTH STREET
(North Side)
Tamworth House

II

House. Early C18 (a lost pumphead is said to have been dated 1724),
possibly by Francis Smith of Warwick, altered early C19. Gritstone
ashlar, the roof hidden behind coped parapets with acroteria at the
corners. Chamfered stone plinth. Three plus three bays. Moulded cornice,
blocking course and rusticated angle pilasters. Left hand three bays
are set back and have a doorway with moulded stone surround,C19 panelled
door, and a window with moulded architrave, both enclosed within a C20
porch. To the left are two single bar sashes in moulded architraves.
Three similar windows above. Right hand three bays have to the ground
floor three glazing bar sashes in moulded architraves. Three similar
windows above and three similar but smaller windows above again.
Inside, an open string staircase around a square well through three
storeys. Carved tread ends and two widely spaced turned balusters
per tread, alternately with turned and barley sugar balusters.
Wreathed and slightly ramped handrail. C19 marble chimneypieces in
the upper rooms.

Listing NGR: SK3436043465

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
78864
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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