Description

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SK 2853
2/94

ST JOHN'S STREET (West Side)
Waltham House

(Formerly listed as Wirksworth Maternity Home)

GV
II

Early C19. Ashlar; three storeys; three sash windows, the outers of three lights, in moulded architraves with cornice hoods on consoles; plain sill bands; quoins at sides; moulded wood doorcase with rectangular fanlight, and portico with coupled Tuscan pilasters, entablature and cornice surmounted by an open balustrade; two wood mullioned three-light sash windows to ground floor (no glazing bars) with moulded architraves and shallow pediments on consoles; modillion eaves cornice; blocking course; end gables with stone copings and stacks. On right-hand side a slightly later two-storeyed wing having one window above, and two below minus glazing bars.

Nos 4 to 14 (even) and Former Wirksworth Maternity Home form a group.

Listing NGR: SK2867353837

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26403262

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)