C Farmer Ltd with the Shoelaces Flat at Sk 2177 6843 Interior Design at Sk 2177 6843 Premises Occupied by Temptations at Sk 2178 6842 and Four Other Companies Skidmores at Sk 2176 6844 The Country Life Shop and Country Bookstore with Flat and Storero is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. Shop. 2 related planning applications.

C Farmer Ltd with the Shoelaces Flat at Sk 2177 6843 Interior Design at Sk 2177 6843 Premises Occupied by Temptations at Sk 2178 6842 and Four Other Companies Skidmores at Sk 2176 6844 The Country Life Shop and Country Bookstore with Flat and Storero

WRENN ID
errant-loggia-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
Shop
Address
C Farmer Ltd with the Shoelaces Flat at Sk 2177 6843 Interior Design at Sk 2177 6843 Premises Occupied by Temptations at Sk 2178 6842 and Four Other Companies Skidmores at Sk 2176 6844 The Country Life Shop and Country Bookstore with Flat and Storero, The Country Life Shop and Country Bookstore with Flat and Storerooms Over at Sk 2176 6844, Matlock Street, Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 217 684
Coordinates
53.21251, -1.67552
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a row of shops located on Matlock Street in Bakewell, dating from around 1800, with various later shop fronts. The structure is made of deeply-coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, a rubble limestone rear, and features a roof of stone slate and concrete tiles.

The exterior consists of three storeys with a nine-window range under a single roofline. It has large quoins, and the first and second floors display projecting stone sills beneath plain window surrounds. The windows include 6/6 sashes beneath 4/8 sashes in bays 1-4, 8/8 sashes beneath 4/8 sashes in bays 5, 6, 8, and 9, and 2/2 sashes in bay 7. Bay 3 features a basket-arched carriage entrance with imposts and iron gates that have spear-finialled dog bars, a spiked mid-rail, and ball cresting on the curved top rails.

The shop fronts include Temptations, which has an ashlar central doorway flanked by plate-glass windows. The Interior Design shop has corniced ashlar surrounds to its window, with the left doorway converted to a window. C Farmer Ltd has a late 20th-century front. Skidmores, dating from around 1900, features fluted wooden pilasters and a panelled door reveal on the left, with an angled fascia between consoles. The Country Life Shop has a 20th-century door in an ashlar surround to the left of a plate-glass window. The building also has various brick ridge stacks and an ashlar end stack with a band on the far right. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

C Farmer Ltd with the Shoelaces Flat at Sk 2177 6843 Interior Design at Sk 2177 6843 Premises Occupied by Temptations at Sk 2178 6842 and Four Other Companies Skidmores at Sk 2176 6844 The Country Life Shop and Country Bookstore with Flat and Storero sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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