Gorwell House

Gorwell House is a house dating to around 1825, built for the owner of the Derby Lace Works. It is constructed of stuccoed mass wall construction, with a natural slate roof hidden behind a parapet, and rendered stacks. The building has an L-shaped layout, comprising a main block and a rear service wing, partially in separate ownership.

The main block is symmetrical, with a five-bay front. Above a deeply-moulded cornice rises a parapet. The ground floor has four French windows with glazing bars, margin panes, and external sliding louvred shutters. First-floor windows are two-pane sashes with margin panes, and evidence of missing shutters. A seven-bay Bathstone Ionic loggia with an entablature, moulded cornice, and paired columns extends from the front, returning for four bays at either end to the central doorway. The doorcase has paired pilasters and a two-leaf front door with glazing bars and margin panes. The left return side of the house retains some likely original 12-pane sash windows.

The interior is very well preserved, retaining original joinery, a turned baluster staircase, and good plaster friezes and cornices, along with original chimney pieces. The first floor is said to have Gothic plaster vaulting.