Numbers 1, 2 and 3 Grosvenor Mansions
NUMBERS 1, 2 AND 3 GROSVENOR MANSIONS, BROAD WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259389
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1, 2 and 3 Grosvenor Mansions
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1, 2 AND 3 GROSVENOR MANSIONS, BROAD WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259389
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1, 2 and 3 Grosvenor Mansions
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1, 2 AND 3 GROSVENOR MANSIONS, BROAD WALK
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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:
- NUMBERS 1, 2 AND 3 GROSVENOR MANSIONS, 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:
- SK 05685 73316
Details
BUXTON
SK0573SE BROAD WALK 616-1/4/7 (East side) Grosvenor Mansions, Nos.1, 2 and 3
GV II
Row of 3 villas or boarding houses, now houses. Mid C19. Possibly by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Duke of Devonshire. Rock-faced millstone grit with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with stone stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attics and basement. Chamfered plinth, first-floor band, ground and first-floor sill bands and flush quoins. Symmetrical front, 9-window range. Central doorway with projecting pilaster porch with Ionic columns in antis and moulded cornice plus a glazed door with overlight, and above a plain sash. Flanked by pairs of 2-storey canted bay windows with plain sashes and hipped lead roofs. Flanked again by single doorways with pilaster surrounds and moulded cornices with glazed doors and overlights, and above single plain sashes. Flanked at either end by further single 2-storey canted windows. Above 9 segment headed plain sashes, and above again 9 gables each with a smaller segment headed plain sash. Basement openings to each bay window, and steps up to each doorway. Left and right returns 2 window with plain sashes. 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 former pupil Edward Milner from 1871, and built by Sanders & Woolcott of London for the 7th Duke. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 117).
Listing NGR: SK0568573316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462935
- 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.
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