Carlisle House
CARLISLE HOUSE, 23, BROAD WALK
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259385
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Carlisle House
- Statutory Address:
- CARLISLE HOUSE, 23, BROAD WALK
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2003-07-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/10943/33
- Rights:
- © Mr David Morten. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259385
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Carlisle House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARLISLE HOUSE, 23, BROAD WALK
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:
- CARLISLE HOUSE, 23, 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:
- SK0551773015
Details
SK0573SE
616-1/4/14
BUXTON
BROAD WALK
(South East side)
No.23
Carlisle House
GV
II
Villa or boarding house, now house. 1869. Possibly by Sir
Joseph Paxton for the Duke of Devonshire. Coursed millstone
grit with ashlar dressings and shallow hipped Welsh slate roof
and 2 stone stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. Chamfered plinth and bracketed
eaves. Double fronted, 3-windows range. Central doorway with
pilaster surround and cornice inscribed CARLISLE HOUSE, and
double glazed doors and overlight. Above a 2/2 sash in a
moulded ashlar surround. Either side are single 2-storey
canted bay windows with hipped slate roofs and 2/2 plain
sashes. Above again 3 gabled through-eaves dormer windows with
a C20 window and two 2/2 sashes, below the central window a
raised datestone.
Right return, 3 windows with through-eaves gabled dormers and
a doorway to the right.
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 & Woolcott of London for the 7th Duke.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire:
Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 117).
Listing NGR: SK0551773015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462931
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 21-Jun-2026 at 18:46:55.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.