Hartington Hotel

The Hartington Hotel is a villa or boarding house, now used as a house, built in the mid-19th century, possibly designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Duke of Devonshire. It is constructed from coursed millstone grit rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with bracketed overhanging eaves and coped gables. The building has two stone stacks.

The exterior consists of three storeys and an attic, with a plinth and sill bands on the first and second floors. It has a double-fronted, three-window range. The central doorway features 20th-century double-glazed doors and a painted surround with a moulded hood supported by console brackets, above which is a round-headed plain sash with a keystone. On either side of the doorway are single two-storey canted bay windows with lead hipped roofs. Above these are three segment-headed plain sashes, and above again is a large central circular dormer window.

The left side of the building has three small sashes in the attic, with a central two-storey canted bay window with a lead roof, and above it is a tripartite sash. The right side is similar but includes a 20th-century fire escape. The interior has not been inspected.

The Broad Walk, where the hotel is located, features a series of Victorian villas and a promenade overlooking the Pavilion Gardens, originally designed by Paxton around 1850. Most surrounding houses were built by speculative developers, with some reputedly designed in detail by Paxton's pupil Edward Milner from 1871 and constructed by Saunders and Woolcott of London for the 7th Duke.