Butts House And Attached Garden Wall To South

Butts House is an 18th-century house, altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is located with an attached garden wall to the south in Bakewell. The house is constructed of mixed limestone and sandstone rubble, with coursed sandstone and roughcast render; the roof is tiled with shaped-tile bands and some Welsh slate. The house has an irregular T-shaped plan, with a front wing projecting from bay 3 and a porch in the left angle, which has a catslide roof.

The garden front features two storeys and an attic, with a 2:1:1-bay design. The porch has a part-glazed door within a stone architrave, which has a plain frieze and cornice. The main section of the house, on the left, has a large 8/8 sash window to the ground floor and an 8/12 sash above, with projecting stone sills and ashlar surrounds. There is an eaves cornice. The front wing, likely from the early 19th century, has a roughcast end wall with a late 19th-century canted bay window with a central French window, ashlar surrounds, and brackets supporting a hipped roof of shaped Welsh slates. An 8/8 sash window is above. A set-back gabled wing features a part-glazed door to the left of a tripartite window with a central 2/2 sash and a 6/6 sash above. This wing rises from a continuation of the main range, with the main roof having been raised in the early 20th century to accommodate an extra storey and a rear-facing gable. The main roof features ashlar copings and a stack at the left end, a ridge stack above the porch, and tulip cresting to roll-moulded ridge tiles. A hipped roof with a corniced lateral stack is present on the front wing's right side. The left return includes 2/2 sashes to the porch and on the wing, with a sill band cut by a 6/6 sash and an 8/8 sash above.

Inside, a ground-floor room in the front wing contains a Neo-Classical style fire surround and a decorative wall frieze which extends into the bay window, along with panelled window shutters and a 6-panel door with raised beads. The main range includes reused oak panelling and two 17th-century panelled doors, as well as two other doorways with reeded architraves. A chamfered oak beam is found in a central ground-floor room.

Attached to the left return is a sandstone garden wall approximately 3 meters high at its maximum, which continues for roughly 30 meters to the south. This wall incorporates a round-arched doorway next to the house and has deeply-coursed sandstone and ashlar copings.