Park View

PARISH OF EDENSOR THE GREEN SK 24/2569-24/2570 7/115 (South Side) 12.7.67 Park View (formerly listed as House North East of Post Office) GV II House. C18 and c1830-40, probably by Paxton and Robertson. Tudoresque style. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins. Stone slate roof and coped gables, with moulded kneelers. Ashlar gable stacks. Chamfered plinth. Two storeys. Twin gabled north elevation. Four stone steps up to the central doorway with C18 moulded architrave and bracketed hoodmould. Gothic panelled door. Flanked by wooden cross windows in bead moulded ashlar surrounds. Two similar windows above, either side of a similar but much smaller window. The outer ones have gothic glazing and stepped and returned hoodmoulds much larger than the windows they serve. Between the gables a stone shield in relief. In the left gable a similar shield in moulded panel and in the right gable a blind gothic niche. The windows are not placed symmetrically with the gables which may indicate the remodelling of an earlier building. Rear elevation entirely remodelled in mid C20. Remodelled as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire. Sources: G F Chadwick The Works of Joseph Paxton, Architectural Press 1961.

Listing NGR: SK2515369942