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

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.