Ivy House

IVY HOUSE, SOUTH CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316494
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:
Ivy House
Statutory Address:
IVY HOUSE, SOUTH CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316494
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:
Ivy House
Statutory Address 1:
IVY HOUSE, SOUTH CHURCH STREET

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
IVY HOUSE, SOUTH CHURCH STREET

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:
Bakewell
National Park:
Peak District
National Grid Reference:
SK 21608 68418

Details

BAKEWELL

SK2168 SOUTH CHURCH STREET 831-1/4/164 (South side) 13/03/51 Ivy House

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House. Mid C17 with remodelled facade dated 1743 on rain-water head. Roughly-coursed limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings; Welsh slate and stone slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with cellar and attics, 5-window range; parallel 2-window range to rear centre. Facade with large quoins; mostly 2/4 sashes. Door to bay 2 has 6-panel door (top panels glazed) in moulded architrave beneath segmental pediment on shaped brackets. Lightly-chamfered 2-light mullioned windows to each bay; bay 3 window is smaller. First floor: bays 1 and 2 have square-faced surrounds to mullioned 2-light windows; bay 3 with 3/6 sash in architrave with double keystone; bay 4 has C17 double-chamfered 2-light mullioned window. Moulded eaves cornice breaks forward over bay 3 window as does a corniced ashlar parapet with panel and end dies. Decorative rain-water hoppers to each end of facade have initials, bird motif and date '1743'; right downpipe is of lead. Coped end gables; 2 renewed ashlar ridge stacks with bands; small end stack on right. Bay 5 is lower and has 2-light casement beneath 6/6 sash. Rear: C17 block to rear centre has large quoins and gable on left. Door to left of centre; 2-light mullioned window to left has 2/4 sashes; various other casements with glazing bars, that to first-floor right in C17 double-chamfered surround. Shaped kneelers and chamfered gable copings; external end stack on right with ashlar shaft. Left return: front range has 2-storey canted bay window with 8/8 sash to each floor. INTERIOR: cellar with stone slabs and access into cave to rear. Ground floor centre has 2 stone fireplaces and stop-chamfered oak beams. Pantry to far right with crinoidal limestone slab and stone trough. Left end room with pine Neo-classical-style fireplace with swags; fielded-panel window reveals; moulded ceiling cornice. Oak stairs with splat balusters of differing designs; various oak studding and beams in the stair area. First-floor right room with oak boarded floor and C17 moulded ashlar fireplace with triangular-headed lintel; ledged and boarded oak door. Far left room with C18 iron grate in eared wooden architrave with dentilled cornice and swags on panel; fielded panel

window reveals; coved ceiling. Rear-left room with oak boards and iron grate in corniced ashlar surround. Attic stair has broad splat balusters and newel post with finial. Exposed oak purlins in attic and a cupboard with butterfly hinges.

Listing NGR: SK2160868418

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
468206
Legacy System:
LBS

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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