Springthorpe Cottage At Stableyard Entrance To Elvaston Castle

SK 43 SW 2/21

PARISH OF ELVASTON BORROWASH ROAD (West Side) Springthorpe Cottage at Stableyard Entrance to Elvaston Castle

GV II

Lodge cottage. c1840, built for the Earl of Harrington and probably designed by William Barron. Red brick on stone plinth and with stone dressings. Slate roof with small brick side wall stack to south-east corner and strange parapets to side walls which curve in at eaves level and curve out again to top. Each gable end has flush parapets with curved tops rising to a central point. Single storey, plus garrets and single bay plus lean-to. Main elevation has a central chamfered trefoil headed doorcase and studded wooden door with matching inner trefoil headed panel, flanked by cinquefoil headed single light chamfered windows. Above the door there is a cinquefoil headed niche with a large 'H' topped by a coronet within. Side elevations have larger central single light cinquefoil headed windows with small lozenge shaped windows above, cut out of the brick. Rear elevation has lean-to with central trefoil headed door and similar single light windows to either side plus a larger cinquefoil headed one above. All windows originally had diamond pattern cast iron glazing, some of these are now missing. Built as one of a series of similar buildings erected during the creation of the lavish gardens, designed by William Barron from 1830-60, which are included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade II*.

Listing NGR: SK4062033045