Top House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1987. House.
Top House
- WRENN ID
- dark-flint-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/12/2019
SK 24/2569-24/2570 7/110
PARISH OF EDENSOR MAIN STREET Top House
(Formerly listed as Top House, EDENSOR LANE (north side))
GV II House. c1830-40 probably by Paxton and Robertson. Italianate style. Coursed squared sandstone and ashlar. Stone slate roof, hipped to east, overhanging on paired brackets. Ashlar ridge stack with panelled sides. Plain eaves band, and to east part plain ground floor sill band and first floor band.
Two storeys. The south elevation has a flat roofed porch to left, terminated by a stone pier with pyramid cap. Doorway with plain stone surround and panelled door. To the right a three-light window of three round arches with raised ashlar surrounds. Similar two-light window above. Polygonal bay to east has to south a single square window to each floor, with raised ashlar surrounds. To the east a row of three round-arched lights and a pair of similar windows above.
Built as part of the picturesque model village by Paxton for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire.
Incorporating older remains of older house at west.
Listing NGR: SK2474269782
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