Chatsworth Estate Office And Village Institute

PARISH OF EDENSOR MAIN ROAD SK 24/2569-24/2570 7/131 (North Side) 12.7.67 Chatsworth Estate Office and Village Institute

II*

Hotel, now estate office and Village Institute. c1776-7, attributed to Joseph Pickford. Enlarged 1912, probably by Romaine-Walker. Red brick and render. Stone dressings. Hipped and gabled Welsh slate roofs. Paired brick lateral stacks. Stone plinth, plain first floor sill band, dentil cornice and moulded cornice. One, two and three storeys. South elevation has 1912 wing to left and symmetrical C18 part of 1-3-1 bays. The outer bays advanced and pedimented, the centre part with an attic storey. Large central ashlar porch on paired Tuscan Doric columns with paired pilasters behind. Round-arched doorway with stone reindeer heads in the spandrels and above. Paired half-glazed doors and traceried fanlight. Flanked by glazing bar sashes under wedge brick lintels. Three similar windows above and three similar but smaller windows above again. Lower pedimented wings have broad Venetian windows with moulded ashlar heads and stepped keyblocks to the central lights, and glazing bar sashes above, of three over three panes. Projecting pavilion to left, rendered, with a parapet with, plain band and moulded coping. Central round-arched doorway with stepped keyblock. Flanked by stepped pilasters and balustraded parapet above. Flanked in turn by plain oculi. To the right a rainwater head dated 1912. Interior: Staircase through two storeys. Open string with carved tread ends and two turned balusters per tread. Built to serve the needs of wealthy travellers and sightseers along the Fourth Duke of Devonshire's new north-south road through the Park.

Listing NGR: SK2501370208