Description

PARISH OF EDENSOR MAIN ROAD
SK 24/2569-24/2570
7/131 (North Side)
12.7.67 Chatsworth Estate
Office and Village
Institute

II*

Hotel, now estate office and Village Institute. c1776-7,
attributed to Joseph Pickford. Enlarged 1912, probably by
Romaine-Walker. Red brick and render. Stone dressings. Hipped
and gabled Welsh slate roofs. Paired brick lateral stacks.
Stone plinth, plain first floor sill band, dentil cornice and
moulded cornice. One, two and three storeys. South elevation
has 1912 wing to left and symmetrical C18 part of 1-3-1 bays.
The outer bays advanced and pedimented, the centre part with an
attic storey. Large central ashlar porch on paired Tuscan Doric
columns with paired pilasters behind. Round-arched doorway with
stone reindeer heads in the spandrels and above. Paired
half-glazed doors and traceried fanlight. Flanked by glazing
bar sashes under wedge brick lintels. Three similar windows
above and three similar but smaller windows above again. Lower
pedimented wings have broad Venetian windows with moulded ashlar
heads and stepped keyblocks to the central lights, and glazing
bar sashes above, of three over three panes. Projecting
pavilion to left, rendered, with a parapet with, plain band and
moulded coping. Central round-arched doorway with stepped
keyblock. Flanked by stepped pilasters and balustraded parapet
above. Flanked in turn by plain oculi. To the right a
rainwater head dated 1912. Interior: Staircase through two
storeys. Open string with carved tread ends and two turned
balusters per tread. Built to serve the needs of wealthy
travellers and sightseers along the Fourth Duke of Devonshire's
new north-south road through the Park.

Listing NGR: SK2501370208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545396

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)