Swiss Cottage
SWISS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372263
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Swiss Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SWISS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372263
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Swiss Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWISS COTTAGE
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:
- SWISS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chatsworth
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 27346 70105
Details
PARISH OF CHATSWORTH CHATSWORTH PARK SK 27 SE 3/88 Swiss Cottage II Cottage. 1839, probably by Paxton and Robertson. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings. Stone slate roof, the slates of diamond shape. Two ashlar stacks. Deeply overhanging on elaborate bracketed eaves with decorative valancing. Two storeys. T-plan. West elevation has a projecting gabled bay to left with bowed front. Round-arched window to each floor with gothick glazing bars. The upper window with decorative hoodmould. The gable also curves forward and has elongated brackets and valancing, painted in blue and white. To the right an open porch with round-arched doorway with panelled door. Timber porch with a circular column at the corner and palisaded parapet. To the right a round-arched window to each floor, the upper one in a gabled half dormer with decorative gable. Gothick glazing. Half hipped gable end to south. To the right a blind wall with curved coped parapet. To the left a curved single storey wing with one similar window and set in front a shallow 'veranda' with palisaded parapet rising to a gable. Plain glazing bar sashes to rear. Designed as an eye-catcher to be seen across the lake. The Gardens and Park are included on the Gardens Register at Grade I. Sources: G F Chadwick The Works of Joseph Paxton, Architectural Press 1961.
Listing NGR: SK2734670105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 81654
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chadwick, GF, The Works of Sir Joseph Paxton, (1961)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,
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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