Latitude: 53.2286 / 53°13'43"N
Longitude: -1.6305 / 1°37'49"W
OS Eastings: 424760
OS Northings: 370238
OS Grid: SK247702
Mapcode National: GBR 57N.NKM
Mapcode Global: WHCD7.X3QQ
Plus Code: 9C5W69H9+CQ
Entry Name: Dunsa House
Listing Date: 12 July 1967
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1088192
English Heritage Legacy ID: 81670
ID on this website: 101088192
Location: Dunsa, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, DE45
County: Derbyshire
District: Derbyshire Dales
Civil Parish: Edensor
Traditional County: Derbyshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire
Church of England Parish: Edensor St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Derby
Tagged with: House
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SK 24/2569-24/2570
7/102
PARISH OF EDENSOR
DUNSA LANE (South Side)
Dunsa House
12.7.67
II
House. c1848 by Joseph Paxton. Italianate style. Coursed squared sandstone with pitted tooled finish, and ashlar. Hipped and gabled Welsh slate roofs. Two tripartite ashlar lateral stacks and a paired ridge stack. Two storeys, with a three storey tower. West elevation of four irregular bays. Tower to left has banded pilasters. Rectangular window to ground floor with ashlar architrave and segmental pediment. Arched glazing bars. Window above in eared ashlar surround, with round-arched glazing. Plain band above and row of three keyed round-arched lights. Moulded cornice and parapet. Parapet bay to right has a three-bay arcade on square piers, with two windows and a doorway. Three round-arched windows above. Advanced bay to right with shallow pitched gable. Tripartite window to ground floor with moulded hoodmould and a triplet of round-arched windows above. The north elevation has a return wall of the tower similar to the east elevation. To the left is a four-bay open arcade. Advanced gabled bay to left with a tripartite window with shallow segmental pediment. A single light and a pair of round-arched lights to the left. The first floor has a triplet of round-arched lights, flanked by rectangular lights. Most of the flat-arched windows have round-arched glazing bars.
Range of garages to south not of special interest.
Sources: G F Chadwick The Works of Joseph Paxton, Architectural Press 1961.
Listing NGR: SK2476070238
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