Post Office and Attached Cottage
POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, JAPP LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367469
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, JAPP LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367469
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office and Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, JAPP LANE
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:
- POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE, JAPP LANE
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 25119 69924
Details
PARISH OF EDENSOR JAPP LANE SK 24/2569-24/2570 7/125 (East Side) 12.7.67 Post Office and Attached Cottage GV II Pair of cottages, now post office and cottage. Late C17 and c1830-40, probably by Paxton and Robertson. Tudor style to C19 part. Coursed squared sandstone and ashlar. Fishscale tile roof with coped gables, plain kneelers and ball finials. Ridge and gable stacks. Two storeys. South elevation of four irregular bays. Off-centre doorway with massive lintel and quoins, and gothic panelled door. To the left a C19 2-light casement and to the left again the jamb, lintel and sill of an C18 window. To the right is a 2-light casement with ashlar lintel, sill and jambs outlining a slightly wider window. To the right again a round window and a line of quoins. To the right again a doorway with stone lintel and gothic panelled half-glazed door, and a C19 2-light casement set in a disturbed C18 surround. The first floor has four C19 2-light casements and evidence of two C18 window. Projecting gable end to west with angle quoins. Bay window of 1-3-1 lights with bracketed sill, chamfered mullions and hipped roof. 2-light chamfered mullion window with returned hoodmould and gothic niche in the gable. Lower bay to left has a 3-light chamfered mullion window with returned hoodmould and a single light above, rising to a gabled half dormer. Single storey bay to left again has a 2-light chamfered mullion window and a similar window to the north gable end. Remodelled as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire. Sources: G F Chadwick The Works of Joseph Paxton, Architectural Press 196l.
Listing NGR: SK2511969924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81693
- 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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