Former Station Masters House at Matlock Station

FORMER STATION MASTERS HOUSE AT MATLOCK STATION, DALE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270993
Date first listed:
16-Feb-1996
List Entry Name:
Former Station Masters House at Matlock Station
Statutory Address:
FORMER STATION MASTERS HOUSE AT MATLOCK STATION, DALE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270993
Date first listed:
16-Feb-1996
List Entry Name:
Former Station Masters House at Matlock Station
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER STATION MASTERS HOUSE AT MATLOCK STATION, DALE ROAD

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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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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:
FORMER STATION MASTERS HOUSE AT MATLOCK STATION, DALE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:
Matlock Town
National Grid Reference:
SK 29680 60197

Details

SK 26 SE MATLOCK DALE ROAD (OFF)
Matlock Bridge
668/10/10012
Former Station Masters
House at Matlock Station

II


Station Master's house at Matlock Station. c1850, with C20 alterations and additions. Attributed to Sir Joseph Paxton, for The Midland Railway Company. Regularly coursed squared gritstone blocks with ashlar dressings, some painted, and ashlar chimney stacks, one to the east gable, the other to the west side wall. Oversailing roof: covered in Welsh slate. L-plan house with enclosed rear courtyard. South elevation: 2 storeys, 3 bays with advanced gable to left, and with open entrance porch in the angle of the 2 ranges. Gable to left with tripartite ground floor window beneath a wide segmentally- arched head. 3 over 3 pane sash window to centre, side sashes without glazing bars .First floor window with arched head and 3 over 3 pane sash. Main range with hipped lean-to roof supported on a square stone column enclosing entrance doorway with a 2-panel door beneath a rectangular overlight. Above, a 3 over 3 pane sash beneath a flat lintel. To the right a matching window above a 3 over 3 pane ground floor sash with an arched head. All windows openings have projecting cills with bracket supports and dropped returns to the lintels. East gable with projecting chimney breast divided onto 2 flues by tall arched recess which ends at eaves level. Rear yard with attached enclosure wall, gabled above access doorway, and with half-round coping. Within yard, C19 single storey and C20 2 storey extensions. Interior: not inspected. History: the house forms part of the station complex developed by the Midland Railway Company on the route between Derby and Buxton.


Listing NGR: SK2968060197

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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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