Cheshire Cheese Public House And Attached Railings

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SK0573SE 616-1/4/45

BUXTON HIGH STREET (East side) Nos.37 and 39 Cheshire Cheese Public House and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Cheshire Cheese Inn)

25/01/51

GV II

Coaching inn, now public house. c1787, with C19 and C20 alterations. Mock rusticated ashlar, with ashlar dressings. The rear is of uncoursed rubble with gritstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and stone stacks.

EXTERIOR: Two-storey, six-window street front arranged 1:2:3. Slightly later right section higher with rusticated ashlar facade. Single canted bay window to left with glazing bar sashes and splat balustrade, above three glazing sashes in painted ashlar surrounds. Left block, single storey to left with pair of plain sashes in ashlar surrounds, to right a very large nine window semi-circular bay window topped with splat baluster, beyond to right a projecting glazed porch and to left a single 2/2 sash with painted surround. Above two similar sashes. Right return canted with single plank door and similar plain sash above.

Rear, five window irregular elevation set-back to left. Central doorway with plank door, to left a three-light window, a C20 casement, a small blocked opening and a plank door. To right a three-light casement with glazing bars and beyond a plank door and glazing bar window. Above off-centre pair of six-pane sashes, flanked by two similar sashes all with painted lintels.

INTERIOR: much altered inserted moulded stone fireplace with decorative spandrels to lower room. Beams exposed to main left-hand range, one with rough chamfering. Pegged tie beams to first floor; the central section cut through to form corridor: side purlins also evident. This block has vaulted stone cellaring.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: ornate iron railing to front with fleur-de-lys and urn topped uprights also square section railing with acorn posts.

(Leach John: The Book Of Buxton: Leicester: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK0577073017