The Mansion Including Coach House Wall
THE MANSION INCLUDING COACH HOUSE WALL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1335139
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Mansion Including Coach House Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANSION INCLUDING COACH HOUSE WALL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1335139
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Mansion Including Coach House Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANSION INCLUDING COACH HOUSE WALL, 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.
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:
- THE MANSION INCLUDING COACH HOUSE WALL, 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:
- Ashbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 17729 46509
Details
CHURCH STREET 1. 783 (South-East Side) The Mansion, including coach house wall SK 14 NE 1/22 15.6.5l. I GV 2. Built circa 1685 but facade, Music Room and interior features date from circa 1765 to 1784. Red brick, with bands at 1st and 2nd floor sill height. Corbelled plaster cornice; parapet with inset balustrades, inset open pediment crowning central bay. Roof not visible. 3 storeys; of 3 bays. 2 windows each side and Venetian window centre with semi-circular tripartite window above. One windowed 3 storey portion of older facade remains to west. The garden front has side gables and a central Doric gabled porch raised on steps and leading to the domed octagonal Music Room. To the north-east of main facade, the wall, only, of the coach house/stable remains but this has arched treatment and character and must be regarded in relation to the group effect here. Interior Elegant staircase with laced iron balusters and balcony above which is supported on marble pillars of Ionic Order. Fireplaces, doors and some panelling with bolection moulding. Plaster ceilings; that of the Music Room with Rococo motifs. The Mansion was the home of Dr Taylor (vide Boswell) 1710-1788. Taylor was a friend of Dr Johnson, who frequently stayed here between 1737 and 1784. (Ref Country Life 28.3.68.)
Nos 38, 40 and 72, together with Pegg's Almshouses, Owlfield's Almhouses, The Mansion, the Summerhouse and the cobbled pavements form a group with the parish Church of St Oswald and the churchyard gate piers, gates and walls.
Listing NGR: SK1772946509
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79834
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 28 March, (1968)
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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