Norman Villa and attached garden walls
Norman Villa, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1334748
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Norman Villa and attached garden walls
- Statutory Address:
- Norman Villa, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1334748
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Norman Villa and attached garden walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- Norman Villa, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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:
- Norman Villa, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Edensor
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 24988 69908
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/12/2019
SK 24/2569-24/2570
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PARISH OF EDENSOR
MAIN STREET
Norman Villa and attached garden walls
(formerly listed as Norman Villa and attached garden walls, EDENSOR LANE (north side) previously listed as Norman House)
12.7.67
GV
II*
House. c1830-40, probably by Paxton and Robertson. Norman style. Coursed squared sandstone and ashlar. Fishscale tiled roof. Steeply pitched gables with moulded copings, plain kneelers, stepped corbels and square finials. Ashlar ridge and gable stacks. Moulded first floor and eaves bands in the form of arched corbel tables with roundels set in.
Two storeys. The south east elevation has a projecting gabled bay window with arched corbel table and parapet. Caernarvon-arched windows. Round-arched Norman style window above with one order of columns with cushion capitals, and in the arch three orders of hollow mouldings with pieces of roll moulding. Chamfered imposts. Two-light casement with round-arched overlight. To the left a large blind round arch. To the right a flat-roofed square porch in the angle, with open round-arches on two sides. Supported by a circular column with scalloped capital. Square responds. Zigzag and moulded arch. Panelled door with decorative wrought iron hinges. Semi-circular overlight. In the north east angle rises a square tower. The lower part has a moulded bracketed band forming the sill of tall blind Caernarvon arches. Chamfered band at the base of the top stage which has an intersecting blind arcade with Caernarvon-arched windows set in.
Pyramid roof. Gabled bay to north east has a stepped tripartite window to the ground floor, the centre light with Caernarvon arch.Continuous sill band. Norman style window above similar to the one on the south east elevation. Attached to the north west a tall fortress-like curtain wall with pilaster buttresses and pyramid caps, enclosing the rear courtyard.
The interior has an open-string stick baluster staircase with carved tread ends, turned newel and ramped handrail.
Built as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire.
Listing NGR: SK2498869908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81674
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chadwick, GF, The Works of Sir Joseph Paxton, (1961)
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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