Description

BUXTON

SK0573NE THE QUADRANT
616-1/3/84 (East side)
21/01/74 Nos.1-9 (Consecutive)

GV II

Row of shops with offices above. c1860, extended 1905, with
late C20 alterations. Dressed gritstone with ashlar dressings
and Welsh slate roofs with grouped stone stacks. Eaves band
and moulded eaves cornice.
EXTERIOR: 3-storeys, Stepped street front has 9 windows with
curved single window ends and 2 window returns, that to left
now 6 windows. Facade divided by tall pilaster strips with
vermiculated rustication and curved brackets to ground floor
and eaves. 9 varied shop fronts, mostly renewed C20.
Tall 3-light mullion windows to first floor with tooled ashlar
surrounds, and 3 round headed lights above also with tooled
surrounds keystones and projecting sills on stone brackets.
Most windows have original casements.
Curved entrance at bottom right has doorway with Tuscan Doric
columned surround with entablature, above single window and
above again single round headed window.
Right return has 2 similar windows on the upper floors and a
glazed single storey addition of 1905 below with ornate iron
parapet. Curved bay at top left has 3-light mullion window to
ground floor and single windows above, left return has 6
single windows in similar tooled surrounds.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK0583773657

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549152

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)