Derby House
DERBY HOUSE, 12, BROAD WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259421
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Derby House
- Statutory Address:
- DERBY HOUSE, 12, BROAD WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259421
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Derby House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DERBY HOUSE, 12, 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:
- DERBY HOUSE, 12, 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:
- SK0560273196
Details
SK0573SE
616-1/4/20
BUXTON
BROAD WALK
(South East side)
No.12
Derby House
GV
II
Villa or boarding house now nursing home. Mid C19. Possibly by
Sir Joseph Paxton for the Duke of Devonshire. Coursed
millstone grit rubble with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof
with over-hanging eaves supported on wooden brackets and stone
stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic storey. Raised vermiculated
quoins, plinth and first-floor band. 3-window front has
central doorway in segment headed surround with moulded impost
and keystone plus 4 panel door with overlight inscribed DERBY
HOUSE/ NURSING HOME. Above a round headed window with raised
keystone, blind top, plain sash and projecting sill on
brackets. Flanking the door are 2 two storey bays, that to
right canted, that to left rectangular to ground but canted to
1st floor with hipped lead roof. All windows have horned
sashes.
Left return of 6 windows arranged 2:4 has 2 storey canted bay
window with gabled dormer in roof, and 3 round headed through
eaves gabled dormer windows.
Right return of 6 windows arranged 2:4. 2 window section to
left has 2 storey canted bay window and broad open pediment
with 4 round headed casement windows. Section to right has
pairs of plain sashes and 3 through eaves gabled dormers each
with a pair of 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 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: SK0560273196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462925
- 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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