The Villas
The Villas, 1-12 Villas Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1412898
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Villas
- Statutory Address:
- The Villas, 1-12 Villas Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1412898
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Villas
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Villas, 1-12 Villas Road
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 Villas, 1-12 Villas Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Bolsover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Bolsover
- National Grid Reference:
- SK4650570700
Details
Six pairs of semi-detached houses. 1893-4. Possibly by Brewill and Baily. For the Bolsover Colliery Company. Red brick with ornamental eaves and gable cornices and Welsh slate roof. Large stacks on central ridge and on rear slopes near gable ends. No 4 is grey stuccoed. 2 storeys. C20 windows under brick segmental arches (with central keystones on the front facades). Each pair has 2 slightly projecting central facing gables with a canted bay window under a slate pentice roof. No. 8 has a replacement French window. Smaller windows over. To either side of the central gables a front door and a single-light window. Above is a terracotta plaque with 'Anno' to one side and either 1893 or 1894 to the other. Sides have further windows and the rears have gables similar to the front, in many cases doubled for extensions, many of them early, or with other extensions in some cases. Along the backs of the rear gardens are outbuildings/coal sheds, many of them original, as well as walls and back gates.
HISTORY. The houses are part of the 'Model Village' built by the Colliery Co. to house, in the case of these houses, its colliery officials and administrative staff, following enlightened Garden Suburb principles of planning and design. The houses of the general workforce received a tonne of coal a month delivered by a tramway in the main square but the tramway did not go past these houses and presumably other means of transport were used along the back roadway here.
These houses form part of a very significant group of historic buildings with the main square to the south and other village buildings (q.v.) and with Bolsover Castle (q.v.) which crowns the ridge above. The whole ensemble is one of the finest colliery villages in the country.
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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