Avenel Court
AVENEL COURT, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246176
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Avenel Court
- Statutory Address:
- AVENEL COURT, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246176
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Avenel Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVENEL COURT, KING 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.
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:
- AVENEL COURT, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bakewell
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 21707 68454
Details
BAKEWELL
SK2168 KING STREET 831-1/4/113 (North West side) 13/03/51 Avenel Court
GV II
Formerly known as: Thompson's Drug Stores KING STREET. Shop with attached outbuildings. c1780 facade; part of core probably C16; outbuildings of various dates to rear. Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings; stone slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 3-window range to front with attached range of outbuildings extending to rear right and returning to enclose 3 sides of a courtyard. Facade to King Street: chamfered quoins to 2-window range on left which projects and is gabled. Late C18 shop front with part-glazed double doors in pilastered wooden surround with consoles flanked by bow windows with glazing bars beneath dentilled cornice. Two 6/6 sashes to first floor in painted architraves; architraved roundel and ashlar copings to the gable. Bay 3, set back to right, has single-storey canted bay window with 6/6 sashes and flat roof; 10/10 sash to first floor has painted stone surround. Irregular courtyard facades include a replica timber-framed bay with jettied front. INTERIOR: main shop room has corbelled ashlar fireplace and beamed ceilings; oak panelling brought from Norton Lees Hall, Sheffield. Right room with large scantling common joists. To rear are parts of a C17 staircase with pierced finials (also from Norton Lees Hall). First-floor room with much original oak stud partitioning and a principal-rafter truss with curved braces from a collar. Front rooms retain 2-panel doors and other features of the c1780 remodelling. Rear wing includes many reused features. Stable building at end of a range has a crucifix carved on left inner door reveal. HISTORY: the building was formerly an Apothecary's Shop.
Listing NGR: SK2170768454
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468153
- 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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