Park Lodge

PARISH BASLOW & BUBNELL CHATSWORTH PARK, SK 27 SE 3/2 NETHER END (North Side) Park Lodge II House. 1840-42 by John Robertson, built for Mr Condell, physician to the Duke of Devonshire. Italianate style. Sandstone ashlar with hipped and gabled Westmorland slate roof. Overhanging bracketed eaves. Ashlar lateral stacks. Two storeys. Irregular plan and elevations. Chamfered plinth and plain first floor band. Garden front has to the main centre block an off-centre square porch with glazed door with sidelights and round arch. Flanked by single light round-arched windows with bracketed sills and raised hoods on impost blocks. To the left a tripartite window with the narrow outer lights round arched. Bracketed sill and hoodmould. The first floor has a panelled pilaster in the centre. To the right a tripartite window with raised stonework, around the head. To the left a pair of round-arched sashes with raised surrounds. Slightly lower and recessed bay to right is a later addition. It has a canted bay and two 2-light casements above. Projecting wing to left may also be an addition. Single storey doorway with plain casements. Entrance elevation has recessed bay to left with a 2-light casement to ground floor and a single light above, each with raised stone heads. In the angle formed with the projecting bay to right is a square porch with hipped roof, keyed moulded round-arched doorway and a small square window. Projecting bay has a tripartite casement window to ground floor with bracketed sill and hoodmould, and an arcaded ashlar balcony above in front of a 2-light window. Recessed bay to right again has a tripartite window, the outer lights round-arched. Bracketed sill and hoodmould. The eaves above have decorative diagonal brackets. Set back to the right is a 3-bay timber arcade with open balustraded parapet. Square tower rising from above the staircase has angle pilasters and triplets of round-arched windows in two directions. Pyramid roof. The interior has an open string staircase with carved tread ends and to each tread a round-arch with key and impost blocks, ie: a round-arched balustrade. Joinery has sunk panels with extruded angles.

Listing NGR: SK2604872198