Buxton House is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1970. Hydropathic establishment, house, shop.

Buxton House

WRENN ID
slow-attic-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
High Peak
Constituency
High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1970
Type
Hydropathic establishment, house, shop
Address
Buxton House, 16, 16a and 17, Terrace Road
OS grid reference
SK 058 733
Coordinates
53.25669, -1.91337
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Buxton House is a hydropathic establishment that has been converted into a house and shops. It dates from the late 18th century, with early 19th-century additions and 20th-century shop fronts. The building is constructed from coursed limestone with ashlar millstone grit dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and stone stacks.

The exterior has three storeys and an attic, with quoins, first and second-floor sill bands, and chamfered eaves. The street front has three windows. A central door, accessed by three steps, has a painted ashlar surround with Tuscan Doric columns supporting a broken swan-necked pediment. The round-headed doorway features a six-panel door and a fanlight. On either side of the door are single shop fronts with painted pilaster surrounds and central recessed shop doors. Above the door is a central round-headed window in a moulded ashlar surround with a keystone, flanked by tripartite oriel bow windows that have 2/2 sashes and flat roofs. Above these are three 2/2 sashes in plain ashlar surrounds, and above again is a single central round-headed dormer window with a 4/2 sash and keystone.

The right return of the building is rendered and has a single window on each floor, with the ground floor window being round-headed. Inside, the staircase rises from the rear of the entrance hall, and rooms open off the hallway. There is a late 19th-century glazed door and screen that have been inserted.

Local climate

Buxton House 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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