Partington Theatre

PARTINGTON THEATRE, HENRY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384260
Date first listed:
27-Jan-1978
List Entry Name:
Partington Theatre
Statutory Address:
PARTINGTON THEATRE, HENRY STREET
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Date:
2002-01-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384260
Date first listed:
27-Jan-1978
Date of most recent amendment:
22-May-2000
List Entry Name:
Partington Theatre
Statutory Address 1:
PARTINGTON THEATRE, HENRY STREET
Statutory Address 2:
PARTINGTON THEATRE, NORFOLK SQUARE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
PARTINGTON THEATRE, HENRY STREET
Statutory Address:
PARTINGTON THEATRE, NORFOLK SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Derbyshire
District:
High Peak (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK 03449 94107

Details

GLOSSOP

SK0394 HENRY STREET
921-1/10/24 (South side)
27/01/78 Partington Theatre
(Formerly Listed as:
NORFOLK SQUARE
(East side)
Partington Social Club)

GV II

Includes: Partington Theatre NORFOLK SQUARE.
Liberal club, now theatre. 1914. By Paul Ogden. Ashlar with
ashlar dressings and brick to rear. Stone slate roof. End and
ridge stacks with alternating plain and barley sugar shafts.
Corner site.
EXTERIOR: 3 storey with basement. Moulded sill and lintel
bands to most windows. Cornice and arcaded parapet with ball
finials and moulded sill bands to both principal fronts.
Entrance front to Henry Street 3 storey topped with large end
stack recessed behind parapet. Asymmetrical 4 window front.
Recessed segment headed doorway to left with double plank
doors and ornate iron hinges and 2 large console brackets
supporting balcony with parapet. To right single light window
with transom and beyond two 3-light cross mullion windows.
Above 4 cross mullion windows arranged 3:1:3:3, that to left
with balcony. Above again central round headed niche in
moulded surround with flat hood.
Norfolk Square front has irregular 7 window range, all 3-light
cross mullion windows, those to the upper floor right taller.
Off-centre doorway at basement level with double plank doors
and ornate iron hinges, to right 2 windows and to left 4
windows. Above five 9-pane cross mullion windows, with to
right 2 smaller 6-pane windows one above the other then
corbelled balcony with arcaded entrance and canted hood. Top
floor has 7 tall 12-pane cross mullion windows and 2 similar
9-pane windows to right. Front divided by recessed downpipe
with hopper.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Williamson E: Derbyshire:
London: 1986-: 219).



Listing NGR: SK0344994107

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
484694
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (2002), 219

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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