Description

BUXTON

SK0573SE BROAD WALK
616-1/4/9 (East side)
No.11
Cavendish House

GV II

Villa or boarding house, now house. Mid C19. Possibly by Sir
Joseph Paxton. Coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings
and Welsh slate hipped roof with stone stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Chamfered plinth, ground and first-floor
bands, first floor panelled impost band and deeply overhanging
eaves supported on carved wooden brackets.
Symmetrical front, 3-windows range with central round headed
doorway in moulded ashlar surround with keystone, and 4-panel
part glazed door and fanlight. Cavendish House is inscribed on
the keystone. Either side are single canted stone bay windows
with hipped leaded roofs, the central 2/2 sash of each
round-headed and taller than the fixed sidelights, which are
topped with ashlar panels. Above 3 round headed 2/2 sashes
with flush surrounds and keystones.
Returns, 2 windows with round headed 2/2 sashes.
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: SK0562473223

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550535

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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