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Latitude: 53.2541 / 53°15'14"N
Longitude: -1.9188 / 1°55'7"W
OS Eastings: 405517
OS Northings: 373015
OS Grid: SK055730
Mapcode National: GBR HZ1T.D6
Mapcode Global: WHBBS.HGJP
Plus Code: 9C5W733J+JF
Entry Name: Carlisle House
Listing Date: 31 January 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1259385
English Heritage Legacy ID: 462931
ID on this website: 101259385
Location: Buxton, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK17
County: Derbyshire
District: High Peak
Electoral Ward/Division: Buxton Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Buxton
Traditional County: Derbyshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire
Church of England Parish: Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale
Church of England Diocese: Derby
Tagged with: House
SK0573SE
616-1/4/14
BUXTON
BROAD WALK
(South East side)
No.23
Carlisle House
GV
II
Villa or boarding house, now house. 1869. Possibly by Sir
Joseph Paxton for the Duke of Devonshire. Coursed millstone
grit with ashlar dressings and shallow hipped Welsh slate roof
and 2 stone stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. Chamfered plinth and bracketed
eaves. Double fronted, 3-windows range. Central doorway with
pilaster surround and cornice inscribed CARLISLE HOUSE, and
double glazed doors and overlight. Above a 2/2 sash in a
moulded ashlar surround. Either side are single 2-storey
canted bay windows with hipped slate roofs and 2/2 plain
sashes. Above again 3 gabled through-eaves dormer windows with
a C20 window and two 2/2 sashes, below the central window a
raised datestone.
Right return, 3 windows with through-eaves gabled dormers and
a doorway to the right.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The Broad Walk comprises a series of Victorian villas and a
walk overlooking the Pavilion Gardens originally laid out by
Paxton c1850, though most of the surrounding houses were built
by speculative developers. Some are reputed to be designed in
detail by his pupil Edward Milner from 1871, and built by
Saunders & Woolcott of London for the 7th Duke.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire:
Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 117).
Listing NGR: SK0551773015
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