Westminster Hotel (Number 21) And Eton House (Number 22)

WESTMINSTER HOTEL (NUMBER 21) AND ETON HOUSE (NUMBER 22), BROAD WALK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259384
Date first listed:
31-Jan-1997
List Entry Name:
Westminster Hotel (Number 21) And Eton House (Number 22)
Statutory Address:
WESTMINSTER HOTEL (NUMBER 21) AND ETON HOUSE (NUMBER 22), BROAD WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259384
Date first listed:
31-Jan-1997
List Entry Name:
Westminster Hotel (Number 21) And Eton House (Number 22)
Statutory Address 1:
WESTMINSTER HOTEL (NUMBER 21) AND ETON HOUSE (NUMBER 22), BROAD WALK

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
WESTMINSTER HOTEL (NUMBER 21) AND ETON HOUSE (NUMBER 22), BROAD WALK

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:
SK0552473044

Details

SK0573SE
616-1/4/13

BUXTON
BROAD WALK
(South East side)
Nos.21 AND 22
Westminster Hotel (No.21) and Eton House (No.22)

GV
II

Pair of semi-detached villas or boarding houses, now hotel and
house. Mid C19. Possibly by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Duke of
Devonshire. Coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings and
shallow hipped Welsh slate roof with 3 stacks with moulded
caps.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys: chamfered plinth, first-floor band,
first- and second-floor sill bands and bracketed eaves. Pair
of double fronted houses, 6-window range in all. Each has
central doorway with glazed door and overlight in painted
stone pilaster surround with flat hood. Above a single 2/2
sash to No.22 with a carved keystone. Either side are single
2-storey canted bay windows with hipped lead roofs and segment
headed 2/2 and plain sashes to No.22. Above again a central
smaller 2/2 sash flanked by single tripartite sashes.
Left return 2-window range with a 2-storey canted bay window
to left.
All windows to No.21 are C20 uPVC replacements.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The Broad Walk comprises a series of Victorian villas and a
walk overlooking the Pavilion Gardens originally laid out by
Paxton c1850, though most of the surrounding houses were built
by speculative developers. Some are reputed to be designed in
detail by his pupil Edward Milner from 1871, and built by
Saunders & Wollcott of London for the 7th Duke.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire:
Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 117).

Listing NGR: SK0552473044

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
462930
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1953), 117

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Westminster Hotel (Number 21) And Eton House (Number 22)

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