Former Wirksworth Maternity Home

Waltham House, St John Street, Wirksworth, DE4 4DT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1109559
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: Former Wirksworth Maternity Home
Statutory Address:: Waltham House, St John Street, Wirksworth, DE4 4DT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1109559
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: Former Wirksworth Maternity Home
Statutory Address 1:: Waltham House, St John Street, Wirksworth, DE4 4DT

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Waltham House, St John Street, Wirksworth, DE4 4DT

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:: Wirksworth
National Grid Reference:: SK 28673 53837

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 April 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SK 2853 2/94

ST JOHN'S STREET (West Side) Waltham House

(Formerly listed as Wirksworth Maternity Home)

GV II

Early C19. Ashlar; three storeys; three sash windows, the outers of three lights, in moulded architraves with cornice hoods on consoles; plain sill bands; quoins at sides; moulded wood doorcase with rectangular fanlight, and portico with coupled Tuscan pilasters, entablature and cornice surmounted by an open balustrade; two wood mullioned three-light sash windows to ground floor (no glazing bars) with moulded architraves and shallow pediments on consoles; modillion eaves cornice; blocking course; end gables with stone copings and stacks. On right-hand side a slightly later two-storeyed wing having one window above, and two below minus glazing bars.

Nos 4 to 14 (even) and Former Wirksworth Maternity Home form a group.

Listing NGR: SK2867353837

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Legacy System number:: 79762
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.