Rockside Hall
Rockside Hall, Wellington Street, Matlock, DE4 3RW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248375
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rockside Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Rockside Hall, Wellington Street, Matlock, DE4 3RW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248375
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rockside Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rockside Hall, Wellington Street, Matlock, DE4 3RW
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:
- Rockside Hall, Wellington Street, Matlock, DE4 3RW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Matlock Town
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 30210 60923
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 October 2022 to amend the name and address, correct a typo in the description and reformat the text to current standards
SK 36 SW
8/153A
WELLINGTON STREET (North Side)
Rockside Hall
(Formerly listed as Rockside Hall of Residence to Matlock College of Further Education)
II
College Hall of Residence at time of listing, formerly a Hydropathic Establishment. Built c 1860 largely extended by Parker and Unwin 1901-05 in the Art Nouveau Style. Further extensions 1923 and 1928,converted to a college c 1950. Coursed rubble with ashlar and red brick dressings and some rendering with plain tile roofs. Three storey mid C19 original block with seven bay south front with ashlar coped gables and kneelers plus two ashlar gable stacks. This front has some original glazing bar sashes, and some C20 casements.
Attached to the east end and projecting seven bays to the south is the tall five storey plus attic extension wing added by Parker and Unwin. This wing has continuous ashlar lintel bands with pronounced stone buttresses rising the full height of the building and topped by tall brick stacks, with chamfered ashlar caps. The upper floor is jettied and rendered. All the windows in this block are glazing bar cross casements, many with shallow canted bay windows within the wall surface.
The south entrance front has a single central doorway with windows above and octagonal corner turrets to eitherside, these project above the roof line with slightly jettied towers surmounted by hipped roofs crowned with octagonal wooden cupolas. Projecting eastward from the north corner of this building is a two storey block with on the ground floor three large round arched ashlar openings. The left hand arch has a doorway, the two right hand arches have double carriage doors. Above is an overhanging tent like glazed canopy of wood and metal. The upper floor is a conservatory, probably added 1923, with a curved glass roof.
The entrance from the east has central part glazed double doors, and similar part glazed side panels, with at the corners elongated scroll brackets. Projecting to the north, and attached to the eastern corner of the original block is a stepped three storey, mid C19 wing which is rendered and has margin light sashes. This wing is attached to the rear, Cavendish Road block built 1928 of three storeys and ten bays wide, topped with a parapet and a small square tower to the west and a large square tower to the east. This block is also rendered.
The north street front has an off-centre doorway to the left with a small window beyond to the right three larger windows, then two garage doors and another door beyond. Above ten large windows and above again ten more windows. All these windows have their original metal frame glazing bar casement ,under ashlar chamfered lintels. To the rear of this range is a single storey gymnasium building probably also designed by Parker and Unwin.
The interior still retains its original staircases and many of its original fittings including fireplaces and corner cupboards with metal hinges. Many of these fittings are decorated with heart shaped Art Nouveau style motifs.
Listing NGR: SK3021060923
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429967
- 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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