Westminster Hotel (Number 21) and Eton House (Number 22) is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1997. Villa, boarding house. 1 related planning application.
Westminster Hotel (Number 21) and Eton House (Number 22)
- WRENN ID
- fossil-cobble-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1997
- Type
- Villa, boarding house
- Address
- Westminster Hotel (Number 21) and Eton House (Number 22), Broad Walk, SK17 6JR
- OS grid reference
- SK 055 730
- Coordinates
- 53.25439, -1.91866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westminster Hotel (Number 21) and Eton House (Number 22) are a pair of semi-detached villas or boarding houses, now functioning as a hotel and a house. They were built in the mid-19th century, possibly designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Duke of Devonshire. The buildings are constructed from coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings and feature a shallow hipped Welsh slate roof with three stacks that have moulded caps.
The exterior consists of three storeys, with a chamfered plinth, a first-floor band, first- and second-floor sill bands, and bracketed eaves. The pair of double-fronted houses has a total of six windows. Each house has a central doorway with a glazed door and overlight, framed by painted stone pilasters and topped with a flat hood. Above the doorway of No.22 is a single 2/2 sash window with a carved keystone. On either side of the doorway are two-storey canted bay windows with hipped lead roofs, featuring segment-headed 2/2 and plain sashes at No.22. Above these bay windows is a central smaller 2/2 sash flanked by single tripartite sashes. The left return has a two-window range with a two-storey canted bay window on the left. All windows in No.21 have been replaced with 20th-century uPVC.
The interior has not been inspected. The Broad Walk, where these buildings are located, is lined with a series of Victorian villas and overlooks the Pavilion Gardens, which were originally laid out by Paxton around 1850. Most surrounding houses were built by speculative developers, with some reportedly designed in detail by Paxton's pupil Edward Milner from 1871 and constructed by Saunders & Wollcott of London for the 7th Duke.
Local climate
Westminster Hotel (Number 21) and Eton House (Number 22) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- 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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