Longford Lodge

BUXTON

SK07SE PARK ROAD, The Park 616-1/2/115 No.50 Longford Lodge

II

House. 1894 by Barry Parker. Coursed rock-faced millstone grit, with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof and stone stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storey plus attics. Chamfered plinth. Irregular 3 window entrance front, with projecting gabled single window to left. Central projecting wooden porch, reached up 4 stone steps. Tudor arched 4-panel door with glazing bar overlight, topped with flat overhanging roof finished with square latticed balustrade. Above single 3-light cross casement to right. Left wing has 3-light cross casement, above a single light corner window and in the gable a single plain sash. Garden front has projecting wing to right with very unusual, canted and square bay window projecting across the across this junction, with a 3- and a 4-light cross casements. Above to left a stone oriel window supported on 3 brackets with 4-light cross casement, and then a 3-light through eaves gabled dormer window. Right corner has 2 storey square bay window are across the corner with 2 pairs of cross casements to each floor. Left return has single cross casement and hipped single storey projection. Blank first floor and above a plain sash in right gable and a small through eaves gabled dormer to left. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: this house was one of 3 originally built by Barry Parker in The Park. Of the other two, Strachur (not included) has been altered and Moorland has been demolished. They are believed to have featured in "Our Homes" (1895) by B Parker, and also in "Art of Building a Home" 1901 (Parker and Unwin). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 116; Parker B: Our Homes: 1895-; Parker B: The Art of Building a Home: 1901-).

Listing NGR: SK0521273590