Description

BAKEWELL

SK2168 BASLOW ROAD
831-1/4/14 (East side)
13/03/51 Castle Hill House and Stable Block
with gates adjoining Castle Hill
House

GV II

Shown on O.S. Map as Castle Hill.
House with attached stable block and gates; now school
boarding house of Lady Manners School. Late C18 with early-mid
C19 additions and later alterations. Stucco to main house;
side wing and stable block of deeply-coursed sandstone; Welsh
slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5x2 bays with service wing to rear;
2-storey, 2-bay side wing on left then a lower bay with
carriage arch beyond which is a 2-storey, 4-bay range fronting
single-storey buildings around an enclosed courtyard.
Main block: chamfered quoins; later central porch with
part-glazed double doors flanked by pilasters beneath
entablature with parapet; porch extends by 2 bays to right as
an infilled loggia.
Projecting sills and raised-edge architraves to 6/6 sashes on
ground and first floors; 3/6 sashes to second floor. Central
first-floor window is an 8/8 sash in moulded architrave with
double keystone; 4/8 sash above in matching surround with
consoles to eaves cornice which breaks forward at centre and
ends. Coped parapet with centre panel and end dies.
2-storey side wing on left, in same style, has exposed
stonework and ashlar dressings to 6/6 sashes. To left of this
is a rusticated basket arch into courtyard; leaded casement
above arch; eaves cornice and parapet; corniced end stack on
left.
Stable block renovated 1994: 2 windows to each floor on left
then 2 windows to first floor between these and the archway;
hipped left end to roof.
Gates: mid C19 iron gates beneath arch have spiked dog bars,
mid-rails with rings and spear finials (one gate removed and
damaged).
INTERIOR: original door architrave within porch. Entrance hall
has oak dado panelling and basket arch on panelled pilasters;
oval ceiling panel. Broad oak staircase with column, barley
sugar and twisted balusters to each tread; wreathed handrail;
dado panelling. Twin round-arched sashes with glazing bars to
stair window. 6-panel doors in architraves.
Front-right room: plaster wall panels and square ceiling

panel; Ionic wooden fireplace with vases and figures.
Rear-right room: plaster wall panels, wooden fireplace with
columns and paterae.
Service stair in rear wing: cantilevered stone steps with
turned newel and oak handrail on oak and iron rods.

Listing NGR: SK2195768829

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26440985

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings