Eagle Hotel George E Bryant and Sons Limited and Market Place Arcade

EAGLE HOTEL GEORGE E BRYANT AND SONS LIMITED AND MARKET PLACE ARCADE, 8 AND 9, EAGLE PARADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259327
Date first listed:
31-Jan-1997
List Entry Name:
Eagle Hotel George E Bryant and Sons Limited and Market Place Arcade
Statutory Address:
EAGLE HOTEL GEORGE E BRYANT AND SONS LIMITED AND MARKET PLACE ARCADE, 8 AND 9, EAGLE PARADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259327
Date first listed:
31-Jan-1997
List Entry Name:
Eagle Hotel George E Bryant and Sons Limited and Market Place Arcade
Statutory Address 1:
EAGLE HOTEL GEORGE E BRYANT AND SONS LIMITED AND MARKET PLACE ARCADE, 8 AND 9, EAGLE PARADE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
EAGLE HOTEL GEORGE E BRYANT AND SONS LIMITED AND MARKET PLACE ARCADE, 8 AND 9, EAGLE PARADE

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 05776 73268

Details

BUXTON

SK0573SE EAGLE PARADE 616-1/4/57 (West side) 25/01/51 Nos.8 AND 9 Eagle Hotel, Geo E Bryant and Sons Ltd and Market Place Arcade (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Eagle Hotel. Premises occupied as Gas Showroom)

II

Formerly known as: The Devonshire Arms MARKET PLACE. Formerly known as: Eagle and Child MARKET PLACE. Coaching Inn now public house, shops and flats. 1760, on site of earlier building, for the 5th Duke of Devonshire, extended c1780-1790, converted late C20. Ashlar gritstone and coursed dressed gritstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers plus stone stacks. PLAN: original right-hand block later extended to left under same roof line and with rear wing. EXTERIOR: 4 and 3 storeys with attic. Main front has 9 windows arranged 4:5. Central bay projects slightly with rusticated pilaster strips. Central doorway with C20 door and glazed overlight in moulded ashlar surround with console brackets supporting pediment. 2/2 sashes to each floor above in moulded surrounds, smaller 3/3 sashes to third floor. 4 storey wing to right has 4 2/2 sashes to each floor, those to third floor smaller 3/3 sashes. Beyond to right another pedimented doorway. To left, 3 storey wing has tripartite C20 shopfront with above 4 tall glazing bar sash type windows in ashlar surrounds, above 4 smaller similar windows linked by a sill band. Left return has single glazing bar sash type window to left on lower floors, with 3 similar windows on third floor and 2 smaller windows to garret. Set-back to left 3 storey 5 window wing with projecting C20 entrance to Market Place Arcade, with beyond a 2 storey canted bay window and then 2 glazing bar sash type windows. Above 4 similar windows flanking upper bay, with 5 smaller similar windows above. Projecting wing to left has single window to ground floor of right return, and smaller window to top floor. Single storey wing beyond with glazing bar windows. INTERIOR: of earlier block has crude re-used timbers to one of rear rooms. Stairs now rise from rear of left-hand entrance hall, rising back over the hallway, with wreathed handrail and shaped strings. Cellar. The later block contains large stair well with wreathed handrail to ground floor, variously moulded handrails to upper floors with rectangular iron balusters. 1st floor with panelled surrounds to windows and 3 doors have deep panelled architraves. There are ornate plaster consoles, recesses and a corner fireplace. Boxed beams. 2nd floor with deep panelled doorways. Queen post roof construction to partitioned attic. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 113).

Listing NGR: SK0577673268

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463001
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1953), 113

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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