Castle Hill House And Stable Block With Gates Adjoining Castle Hill House

Castle Hill House is a large late 18th-century house with an attached stable block and gates, located on Baslow Road, Bakewell. Originally shown on Ordnance Survey maps as Castle Hill, it is now a boarding house for Lady Manners School. The main house is stuccoed, while a side wing and the stable block are constructed of deeply-coursed sandstone. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate.

The main house is three storeys and five bays wide, with a service wing to the rear. A two-storey, two-bay side wing is on the left, followed by a lower bay containing a carriage arch, and then a two-storey, four-bay range fronting buildings arranged around an enclosed courtyard. The main block features chamfered quoins. A later central porch has part-glazed double doors flanked by pilasters under an entablature with a parapet, and it extends two bays to the right as an infilled loggia. There are 6/6 sash windows on the ground and first floors, with 3/6 sashes on the second floor. The central first-floor window is an 8/8 sash in a moulded architrave with a double keystone, and the window above it is a matching 4/8 sash with consoles to the eaves cornice, which projects forward at the centre and at the ends. A coped parapet features a central panel and end dies. The two-storey side wing, in a similar style, has exposed stonework and ashlar dressings to the 6/6 sash windows. To the left of the wing is a rusticated basket arch leading into the courtyard; above the arch is a leaded casement, and there is an eaves cornice and parapet, as well as a corniced end stack.

The stable block, renovated in 1994, has two windows on each floor to the left, then two windows to the first floor between these and the carriage arch. The left end of the roof is hipped.

The mid-19th century iron gates beneath the arch have spiked dog bars, mid-rails with rings, and spear finials (one gate is missing and damaged).

The interior features an original door architrave within the porch. The entrance hall has oak dado panelling and a basket arch on panelled pilasters with an oval ceiling panel. A broad oak staircase has a column, barley sugar, and twisted balusters on each tread, a wreathed handrail, and dado panelling. A twin round-arched sash window with glazing bars is found on the stair landing. There are 6-panel doors in architraves throughout. A front-right room has plaster wall panels and a square ceiling panel, along with an Ionic wooden fireplace with vases and figures. A rear-right room has plaster wall panels and a wooden fireplace with columns and paterae. The service stair within the rear wing has cantilevered stone steps with a turned newel and an oak handrail on oak and iron rods.