10, Derby Street

LEEK

SJ9856SW DERBY STREET 611-1/6/54 (South side) 13/04/51 No.10

GV II

House, now solicitors' offices, and reputedly built originally to house offices together with domestic accommodation, later extended to include courthouse. Dated 1760. Brick with stone dressings and plain-tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-window range with advanced central pedimented bay. Doorway with pediment carried on brackets. Date engraved and painted in entablature. Round-arched stressed architrave to upper window with margin lights. 6-pane sash window in attic storey, and tiny bull's-eye window in apex of pediment. Flanking windows are all 12-pane sashes with painted stone cills and flat-arched gauged brick heads with painted stone keys. Moulded stone eaves cornice; end wall and axial stacks. Cast-iron spearhead railings with urn finials on principal posts define small yard to front. Short rear wing to right housing staircase, extended mid C19. Original full-height stair window with central mullion and divided by transoms (wood, but stone mullion and transom in lowest light) into 7 vertical divisions. Small leaded panes. Mid C19 extension beyond houses former courtroom: 2-storeyed, 4-window range, with 16-pane sash windows each side of 2 doorways (left hand doorway giving access to courtroom), and tripartite sash window to ground floor left. Similar 16-pane sash windows to first floor, and one inserted window to right of centre. Single storey extension to right, with round-arched doorway and 16-pane sash window. Openings all with flat stone lintels and cills, but doorway to right of centre in late C20 replica reeded case with lozenge overlight. INTERIOR: layout of original plan survives, with staircase with turned balusters and moulded rail. Some cast-iron fireplaces may also be late C18; fitted furniture associated with office use, late C19 or early C20. Courtroom in rear wing retains bench and dock, and tongue-and-groove wall panelling. It was last used as the magistrates' court in the 1950s.

Listing NGR: SJ9843856496