1 and 2 Midland Cottages
1 and 2 Midland Cottages, Bakewell Road, Rowsley
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1476213
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-2005
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2 Midland Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- 1 and 2 Midland Cottages, Bakewell Road, Rowsley
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1476213
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-2005
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2 Midland Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 and 2 Midland Cottages, Bakewell Road, Rowsley
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:
- 1 and 2 Midland Cottages, Bakewell Road, Rowsley
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rowsley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK2593665833
Details
ROWSLEY
BAKEWELL ROAD
No. 1 & 2 Midland Cottages
II
Pair of cottages, now single dwelling. 1850. By Joseph Paxton. For the Midland Railway. Finely coursed squared stone with stone dressings and slate roof with central ridge stack of brick on a stone base. Further tall brick stack on rear outshot. Simple Italianate style. 2 storeys. 4-window front faces away from road and has round-arched windows to ground floor, 2/2 sashes or windows with ornamental glazing bars. Sashes or windows with arched lights above. Ground floor windows have projecting arched heads supported on impost blocks and all windows have sills supported on corbels. Each gable end is blank but for a stone porch, the flat hood supported on unusual carved brackets with pendentives. The rear has 2 windows over the shallow hipped roof outshut which is an original feature (cf the cottages at Darley Dale).
HISTORY. These cottages are very similar to a pair (q.v.) next to Darley Dale station which are also by Paxton. The minutes of the Midland Railway of August 10, 1850, specify that 'Mr.Paxton be requested to prepare the plans, to let the works and superintend the construction' of 2 houses, an office and 4 cottages at Rowsley station. The minutes explain that this was because the station staff had to travel so far to their work.
Joseph Paxton, who was already working on the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition the following year, had been Head Gardener at nearby Chatsworth since 1826 and agent since 1849, and had carried out many outstanding works there. The railway line to Rowsley, which was the nearest station to Chatsworth, had opened in June, 1849, and Chatsworth had 80,000 visitors that summer. Many of these must have travelled through Rowsley station (a special train brought the first large party of 600 from Derby in June soon followed by a party of 2000 from Sheffield), and therefore the proximity of railway staff to the station was certainly essential!
This is a fine quality little-altered pair of railway cottages by a distinguished architect and landscape gardener, and also has historic interest in that the construction for railway staff responded to the huge number of travellers passing through the station.
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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