Austwick

Austwick is a house built in 1902 by Parker and Unwin of Buxton for Mr. J.J. Robins, with later alterations by Montague and Associates of Derby. The house features roughcast red brick, tall irregularly placed brick chimney stacks, and a plain tile roof. It has an irregular rectangular plan with a single-storey service wing at the rear.

The west elevation is two storeys and an attic, almost pyramidal in shape, dominated by a broad roof hip that includes a four-light flat-roofed attic dormer. The eaves line is interrupted by a ten-light window on the first floor, accompanied by a continuous range of single light windows that resemble a long flush mullioned window. The ground floor has mullioned corner bay windows set at 45 degrees to the front wall, which features a triangular recess at the centre, again giving 45-degree angles to the windows. The capping of the bays is expressed as a continuous string course.

On the north side elevation, there is a two-storey tower and a single-storey entrance porch with a half-glazed door. The east elevation includes a central five-light window on the first floor and single lights at the outer edges. The ground floor has an altered window and two doorways, along with a single-storey service range to the north that has three planked doors beneath a hipped roof.

Inside, much of the original joinery remains, including a splat baluster stair, a glazed hall screen, planked doors with original brass door furniture designed by Parker in 1896, and copper canopied firehoods over the ground floor hearths. The house was constructed by Parker Cooper of Derby at a cost of £768.17s.0d.