Carlisle House

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BUXTON BROAD WALK (South East side) No.23 Carlisle House

GV II

Villa or boarding house, now house. 1869. Possibly by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Duke of Devonshire. Coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings and shallow hipped Welsh slate roof and 2 stone stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. Chamfered plinth and bracketed eaves. Double fronted, 3-windows range. Central doorway with pilaster surround and cornice inscribed CARLISLE HOUSE, and double glazed doors and overlight. Above a 2/2 sash in a moulded ashlar surround. Either side are single 2-storey canted bay windows with hipped slate roofs and 2/2 plain sashes. Above again 3 gabled through-eaves dormer windows with a C20 window and two 2/2 sashes, below the central window a raised datestone. Right return, 3 windows with through-eaves gabled dormers and a doorway to the right. 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: SK0551773015