The Old Court House Shops and Restaurant
THE OLD COURT HOUSE SHOPS AND RESTAURANT, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259237
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Court House Shops and Restaurant
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE SHOPS AND RESTAURANT, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259237
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Court House Shops and Restaurant
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE SHOPS AND RESTAURANT, GEORGE 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:
- THE OLD COURT HOUSE SHOPS AND RESTAURANT, GEORGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 05765 73576
Details
BUXTON
SK0573NE GEORGE STREET 616-1/3/36 (South side) The Old Court House, shops and restaurant
GV II
Formerly known as: Court House GEORGE STREET. Also known as: Masonic Hall, Court House GEORGE STREET. Marked on the OS map as Masonic Hall. Former estate office, court house and Masonic hall, now shops and restaurant. Mid C18, altered 1803-1806 by John White for the Duke of Devonshire, with C19 alterations and C20 refurbishment. Coursed and dressed millstone grit with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with stone stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3-storey. Street front 11 windows arranged 2:5:2:2 each under separate roofs. Set-back wing to left 3 storey and 2 windows. 2 round headed openings on ground floor, partly obscured by external stone staircase with iron balustrade leading to upper floor and glazed panel door with overlight, to left a 3/3 sash, and above 2 further 3/3 sashes. Projecting central 2 storey 5-window range, with first-floor sill band and coped blind parapet. Central doorway with raised surround and glazed door with overlight flanked by C20 tripartite shopfronts and doors, beyond either side round headed, former, doorways with C20 shopfronts and blocked arches. Above 5 very tall 4/2 sashes. Set-back wing to right 2 storey, 2 windows, with central former doorway with fixed window and to left a round headed doorway with C20 double doors and fixed window beyond, to right 2 former doorways now with enlarged C20 shopfronts. Above 2 plain sashes with C20 louvred shutters, linked by sill band. Set-back single storey wing to right with 2 round headed openings with linking impost band and keystones, both with plate glass shop windows and fanlights. Rear main block originally 5 windows, central round headed doorway now blocked, with later doors to right built over to left. Above central window blocked, with 2 sashes to left and 2 blocked windows to right. INTERIOR: of main block: re-roofed C20: 1st floor with new partitions retains original details such as some folding panelled shutters to windows, moulded door surrounds; one with prominent moulded architrave, 4-panelled doors (one folding door), engaged columns and some raised panelling. The ground floor is vaulted. The right-hand blocks have been substantially altered C20. Reputedly built as Estate Office for the Duke of Devonshire, used as Court House, Assembly Rooms and Masonic Hall. (Leach John: The Book Of Buxton: Leicester: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK0576573576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463083
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Leach, J, The Book of Buxton, (1987)
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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