Avenel Court

Avenel Court, formerly known as Thompson's Drug Stores, is a shop with attached outbuildings located on King Street in Bakewell. The building dates from around 1780, although part of its core likely dates back to the 16th century, and the outbuildings are of various dates. It is constructed from coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof.

The exterior features a two-storey, three-window range at the front, with an attached range of outbuildings extending to the rear right, which returns to enclose three sides of a courtyard. The facade facing King Street has chamfered quoins on the left side, where a two-window range projects and is gabled. The late 18th-century shop front includes part-glazed double doors set in a pilastered wooden surround with consoles, flanked by bow windows with glazing bars beneath a dentilled cornice. The first floor has two 6/6 sash windows in painted architraves, with an architraved roundel and ashlar copings at the gable. The third bay, set back to the right, features a single-storey canted bay window with 6/6 sashes and a flat roof, while a 10/10 sash window on the first floor has a painted stone surround. The irregular courtyard facades include a replica timber-framed bay with a jettied front.

Inside, the main shop room has a corbelled ashlar fireplace and beamed ceilings, along with oak panelling that was brought from Norton Lees Hall in Sheffield. The right room features large scantling common joists, and to the rear, there are parts of a 17th-century staircase with pierced finials, also from Norton Lees Hall. The first-floor room retains much original oak stud partitioning and a principal-rafter truss with curved braces from a collar. The front rooms preserve two-panel doors and other features from the c1780 remodelling. The rear wing includes many reused features, and the stable building at the end of the range has a crucifix carved on the left inner door reveal. Historically, this building served as an apothecary's shop.