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Latitude: 53.302 / 53°18'7"N
Longitude: -1.4762 / 1°28'34"W
OS Eastings: 435001
OS Northings: 378470
OS Grid: SK350784
Mapcode National: GBR LZ48.61
Mapcode Global: WHDF2.988F
Plus Code: 9C5W8G2F+RG
Entry Name: The Dcc Library
Listing Date: 9 January 1967
Last Amended: 7 July 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1040034
English Heritage Legacy ID: 79522
Also known as: Dronfield Library
ID on this website: 101040034
Location: Dronfield, North East Derbyshire, S18
County: Derbyshire
District: North East Derbyshire
Civil Parish: Dronfield
Built-Up Area: Dronfield
Traditional County: Derbyshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire
Church of England Parish: Dronfield St John Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Derby
Tagged with: Public library Manor house
PARISH OF DRONFIELD HIGH STREET
SK 37 NW - SK 37 NE
5/42 - 6/42 (South Side)
The DCC Library
9.1.67 (formerly listed as
The Manor House)
GV II
County Council Library, formerly the Manor House. c1700, with
later alterations and additions; converted to library and
offices 1967. Coursed squared coal measures sandstone with
ashlar dressings, rising from a shallow chamfered plinth.
Moulded eaves cornice with bold brackets, and a hipped slated
roof. Two storeys and basement, seven bays 3-1-3, with advanced
entrance porch of two storeys, the doorway having a semi-
circular headed moulded surround, impost blocks and keyblock
with flanking pilasters and a flattened pulvinated entablature
enclosing the opening. Window openings, formerly 2-light flush
mullions with transoms, now with glazing bar sashes, four x four
panes, set in old stone surrounds. Moulded stringcourse to the
heads of the ground floor windows. The entrance is approached
by semi-circular steps. The rear and north elevations retain
mullioned and transomed openings. Interior, much altered, but
retaining C17 square oak panelling, and C17 oak turned baluster
stair with ball finials to posts and a moulded handrail. The
house was built for Ralph Burton, Lord of the Manor, whose
father Francis purchased the earlier house from Lionel Fanshawe,
1674. The house passed to the Rossington family, who sold it to
John Rotherham in 1750. Inherited 1295 by Joseph Cecil. Sold
to the local authority in the 1930s. Source: The Derbyshire
Country House, Vol II. Craven and Maxwell.
Listing NGR: SK3500178470
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