Bowbridge House

SK 33 NW 6/78 13.2.67

PARISH OF MACKWORTH ASHBOURNE ROAD (South Side) Bowbridge House

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House. Early C18, mid-C18 and mid-C19. Red brick with sandstone dressings. Plain tile roofs, hipped to south east. Five brick ridge and gable stacks. Two storeys. East elevation of three plus one bays. Three bay mid-C18 part has the centre bay advanced and pedimented. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Ground floor has recessed porch between broad mid-C19 bays with parapets and each with broad tripartite glazing bar sashes. Within the porch a Venetian doorway with half glazed door. First floor has a central Venetian window with alternately raised voussoirs around the arch and pieces of entablature over the side windows. Glazing bar sashes. Flanked on each side by glazing bar sashes under channelled stone lintels with raised keyblocks. Projecting C19 bay to right has tripartite glazing bar sash to the ground floor and a single glazing bar sash above, under a stone lintel. South elevation has a two storey canted bay with glazing bar sashes, and a C19 conservatory or greenhouse. Irregular gabled west elevation, with glazing bar sashes under stone lintels. Interior: Open string staircase with carved tread ends and two turned balusters per tread. Probably altered in C19. Two late C18 chimneypieces. Raised and fielded panelled doors. In the back part of the house, possibly C17, moulded beams. The house was at some time the dower house to Markeaton Hall.

Listing NGR: SK3022238147