The Old Kings is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1997. Public house, store. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Kings

WRENN ID
iron-forge-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1997
Type
Public house, store
Address
The Old Kings, Buxton Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales, DE45 1DA
OS grid reference
SK 216 686
Coordinates
53.21459, -1.67675
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Kings is a former public house, now a store, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of deeply-coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with concrete tiles at the rear.

The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range, with a wing extending to the rear left. It has large quoins and a quoined carriage entrance on the right, which includes boarded doors and corbels supporting a wooden lintel. To the left, there is a 20th-century casement window with a projecting stone sill set within a painted ashlar surround. On the first floor, there are similar surrounds for 6/6 sash windows. An ashlar chimney stack with a band is located at the left end of the building.

On the right side, there is an upper 6/6 sash window in a similar surround to those on the front elevation. The doorway from the carriage passageway features a channelled wooden architrave with corner blocks and a 20th-century door, with 20th-century casements on either side. There is also a cellar drop with an 8/8 sash window above it, along with various 2/2 and 6/6 sash windows at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Old Kings 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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