Top House
Top House, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334764
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Top House
- Statutory Address:
- Top House, Main Street, Edensor, DE45 1PH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334764
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Top House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Top House, 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:
- Top House, 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 24742 69782
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
Top House
(Formerly listed as Top House, EDENSOR LANE (north side))
GV
II
House. c1830-40 probably by Paxton and Robertson. Italianate style. Coursed squared sandstone and ashlar. Stone slate roof, hipped to east, overhanging on paired brackets. Ashlar ridge stack with panelled sides. Plain eaves band, and to east part plain ground floor sill band and first floor band.
Two storeys. The south elevation has a flat roofed porch to left, terminated by a stone pier with pyramid cap. Doorway with plain stone surround and panelled door. To the right a three-light window of three round arches with raised ashlar surrounds. Similar two-light window above. Polygonal bay to east has to south a single square window to each floor, with raised ashlar surrounds. To the east a row of three round-arched lights and a pair of similar windows above.
Built as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire.
Incorporating older remains of older house at west.
Listing NGR: SK2474269782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81678
- 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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