Grosvenor House Hotel
GROSVENOR HOUSE HOTEL, 1, BROAD WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259417
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Grosvenor House Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GROSVENOR HOUSE HOTEL, 1, BROAD WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259417
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Grosvenor House Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROSVENOR HOUSE HOTEL, 1, 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:
- GROSVENOR HOUSE HOTEL, 1, 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 05732 73390
Details
BUXTON
SK0573SE BROAD WALK 616-1/4/17 (South East side) No.1 Grosvenor House Hotel
GV II
Villa or boarding house now hotel. Mid C19, extended late C19 altered C20. Possibly by Sir Joseph Paxton. Dressed millstone grit with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof, moulded stone stacks and over-hanging eaves on prominent wooden brackets. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics with single storey extension to left. Plinth, impost and sill bands. Main front has 3 windows with central segment headed doorway with 4 panel door and overlight, chamfered surround with carved imposts and keystone, and above a segment headed plain sash in similar surround. To left a 2 storey canted bay window with segment headed plain sashes and hipped slate roof. To right a similar single storey canted bay window with flat roof, and above a single segment headed plain sash with carved impost and keystone. Above in gables on either side a round headed sash with prominent keystone. Single storey flat roofed extension to left with segment headed doorway to right with 4 panel door and overlight in flat ashlar surround with keystone and flat hood. To left a pair of segment headed plain sashes in similar surrounds with beyond canted corner with similar pair of sashes. Rear: irregular asymmetrical, containing some round headed windows. Brick extension. 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 Saunders & Woolcott for the 7th Duke. (Kelly's Directories: Buxton: 1869-).
Listing NGR: SK0573273390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Buxton, (1869)
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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