Cavanaleck (Number 195) and Overlaw (Number 197) is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1981. A C20 Houses. 1 related planning application.

Cavanaleck (Number 195) and Overlaw (Number 197)

WRENN ID
former-latch-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
High Peak
Constituency
High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1981
Type
Houses
Address
Cavanaleck (Number 195) and Overlaw (Number 197), Lightwood Road, Buxton, SK17 6RN
OS grid reference
SK 056 745
Coordinates
53.26769, -1.91708
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cavanaleck (Number 195) and Overlaw (Number 197) are two houses built between 1903 and 1904 by architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. They are constructed of roughly coursed gritstone with ashlar dressings and feature tiled roofs with overhanging eaves and moulded wooden barge boards, along with a part rendered brick stack. The style is Vernacular Revival.

The buildings are two storeys high with an attic and basement, presenting an irregular, twin-gabled front with four windows. The single-storey center has two small 2-light mullion windows above two basement doors, topped by a 3-light raking dormer window. The left gable features a canted ground floor corner bay window with four lights, a single light window to the right, and a 3-light mullion window above. The projecting right gable has two 4-light mullion windows on each floor that wrap around the corners. The right return includes an off-centre doorway accessed by steps, set within an arched opening with angled sides, and features a part glazed plank door with iron studs. Above this doorway is a 4-light mullion window, and to the right is a two-storey projecting gable wing with two 4-light mullion windows on each floor that also wrap around the corners, along with another 4-light mullion window in the main gable. The left return has similar window arrangements, and all windows have square leaded casements.

Inside, the houses are reputed to retain many original features, including exposed ceiling joists in the sitting room, an inglenook with a stone fireplace featuring a copper hood and settles, bookshelves above, and a recess for a clock above the bressumer. The plain staircase has a solid timber string and full height newels, while the design of the window furniture shows an Art Nouveau influence.

Local climate

Cavanaleck (Number 195) and Overlaw (Number 197) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2012
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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