Hartington Hotel

SK0573SE 616-1/4/11

BUXTON BROAD WALK (East side) No.18 Hartington Hotel

GV II

Villa or boarding house, now house. Mid C19. Possibly by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Duke of Devonshire. Coursed millstone grit rubble with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof with bracketed over hanging eaves and coped gables. 2 stone stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. Plinth, first- and second-floor sill bands. Double fronted, 3-window range. Central doorway with C20 double glazed doors and a painted surround with moulded hood supported on console brackets, and above a round headed plain sash with keystone. Either side a single 2-storey canted bay window with lead hipped roofs. Above 3 segment-headed plain sashes, and above again a single large central circular dormer window. Left return, 3 small sashes to attic, with central 2-storey canted bay window with lead roof. Above a tripartite sash. Right return similar with C20 fire escape. 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 and Woolcott of London for the 7th Duke. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 117).

Listing NGR: SK0555373110