Buxton House

BUXTON

SK0573SE TERRACE ROAD 616-1/4/60 (North East side) 21/12/70 Nos.16, 16A AND 17 Buxton House (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Nos.16 AND 17 Buxton House)

GV II

Hydropathic establishment, now house and shops. Late C18, with early C19 additions and C20 shop fronts. Coursed limestone with ashlar millstone grit dressings and Welsh slate roof with coped gables and stone stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic. Quoins, first and second-floor sill bands and chamfered eaves. Street front, 3 windows. Central door reached up 3 steps with painted ashlar surround with Tuscan Doric columns supporting broken swan-necked pediment, and round headed doorway with 6-panel door and fanlight. Either side single shop fronts with painted pilaster surrounds and central recessed shop doors. Above a central round headed window in moulded ashlar surround with keystone, flanked by tripartite oriel bow windows with 2/2 sashes and flat roofs. Above three 2/2 sashes in plain ashlar surrounds. Above again a single central round headed dormer window with 4/2 sash and keystone. Right return rendered with a single window to each floor, that to ground floor round headed. INTERIOR: staircase rises from rear of entrance hall. Rooms open off hallway. Late C19 glazed door and screen inserted.

Listing NGR: SK0587773300