Haddon House Farmhouse With Attached Outbuildings And Gateways

SK26NW 831-1/2/93

BAKEWELL HADDON ROAD (West side) Haddon House Farmhouse with attached outbuildings and gateways

GV II

Farmhouse with attached gateways and outbuildings. c1840 and late C19. Coursed dressed sandstone with rubble limestone; Welsh slate roofs. EXTERIOR: U-shaped group; house of 2 storeys and attic, 4-window range; attached former stable at east end of one storey with loft in 3-window range; Single-storey, 4-bay outbuilding on south side of yard linked to the above by wall with archway; gate piers to side entrance at south-west corner of yard. House: raised quoins. Bay 2 has segmental arch to carriage house, to right of this are 2 quoined stable doorways flanked by casement windows. Living accommodation on upper floors: doorway to bay one of first floor (reached from a terrace) has boarded door with original decorative thumb-latch in dressed stone surround with hoodmould. Matching surrounds to one casement with horizontal glazing bars and 2 margin-glazed sashes. 2 roof lights and 2 gabled, three-quarter dormers with margin-glazed sashes. Roll-moulded and double-chamfered gable copings; corniced ashlar ridge stack and matching end stack on right. Former stable adjoining the house has door with 3-pane overlight flanked by casements in bonded stone surrounds; central gable with round-arched window; gable copings on right. Opposite side of yard: late C19 block with bay one having door to right of a 3-light casement; remaining 3 bays with horizontally-sliding doors beneath wall plate supported on 2 cast-iron columns. Ashlar gable copings with square base to octagonal-flue end stack on left. At west end of this building are gatepiers, the opening now infilled by sheds. East end of yard enclosed by tall dressed sandstone wall with double gates beneath chamfered, pointed arch; roll-moulded double-chamfered copings step up to a gable above the porch. INTERIOR: not inspected. Included for group value with Haddon House (qv).

Listing NGR: SK2237667429