Old House Museum Including Mounting Block
OLD HOUSE MUSEUM INCLUDING MOUNTING BLOCK, CUNNINGHAM PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247512
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Old House Museum Including Mounting Block
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HOUSE MUSEUM INCLUDING MOUNTING BLOCK, CUNNINGHAM PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247512
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Old House Museum Including Mounting Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HOUSE MUSEUM INCLUDING MOUNTING BLOCK, CUNNINGHAM PLACE
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:
- OLD HOUSE MUSEUM INCLUDING MOUNTING BLOCK, CUNNINGHAM PLACE
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 21478 68541
Details
BAKEWELL
SK2168 CUNNINGHAM PLACE 831-1/4/92 (West side) 20/04/54 Old House Museum including mounting block (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH LANE (West side) Cunningham Place (Old House Museum))
II*
House, extended and altered to form various dwellings, now local history museum. C16 and C17, possibly of earlier origin and with later additions and alterations. Rubble limestone with sandstone dressings; stone slate roof. Irregular H-shaped plan with earliest range forming left cross wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Large quoins. Left gable has restored, mullioned and transomed 3-light window; 2-light mullioned window to first floor and small opening above. Gabled 2-storey porch to right of cross wing has quoined doorway with elongated lintel; 2-light window over. Central recess with 2 multi-paned iron casements to each floor; lower-right window has arched lintel. Right cross wing: two 2/2 sashes to each floor; C19 punched stone surrounds, shaped kneelers and gable copings. Set back to right is a side wing with door and with 2/2 sash to each floor; stone end stack with rounded cap. Left return of right cross wing has a blocked 2-light mullioned window to each floor; mounting block against wall. A corniced ashlar stack with brick shaft rises from left of valley near the porch. Left return (of left cross wing): projecting side wing lit by 2-light mullioned windows. Cross wing has doorway and multi-paned casement beneath restored 2-light mullioned window. INTERIOR: central range with large rear-wall fireplace having splayed ashlar reveals, keeping holes and arched timber lintel; various ceiling beams; C20 staircase in original stair turret to left of the fireplace. Left cross wing: ashlar fireplaces on both floors and a timber-framed partition which rises through 2 floors and has triangular-headed doorways and some original wattle and daub infill. Oak beams, oak floorboards and exposed roof timbering: principal-rafter truss with collar, single purlins with wind braces. Room to rear with small C18 corniced ashlar fireplace. Over centre range is another ashlar fireplace and against the right
cross wing an oak partition with fragment of a triangular-headed doorway. To rear-left corner of right cross wing is an oak-framed doorway giving access to a garderobe. Central ground-floor room of right cross wing with C19 cottage features; arched cellar to rear. HISTORY: a complex house thought to have evolved from a medieval hall and cross wing, the latter possibly underbuilt c1535 to provide a "competant dwelling house" as detailed in a 1534 lease from The Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral to Ralf Gell of Hopton. In 1777 Sir Richard Arkwright leased the house from Philip Gell and converted it into 6 dwellings for mill employees; one of the cottages demolished mid C20, remnants attached to left cross wing. (Bakewell and District Historical Society: Old House Museum, Bakewell: 1984-; Journal of The Bakewell and District Historical Society: Meeke E R: 1984-: 11-30).
Listing NGR: SK2147868541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468132
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Meeke, E R, Journal of the Bakewell and District Historical Society in Old House Museum Bakewell, (1984), 11-30
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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