Description

BUXTON

SK0573SE HALL BANK
616-1/4/37 (West side)
21/12/70 Nos.2A, 2B AND 2-5 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
HALL BANK
Nos.1-5 (Consecutive))

GV II

3 paired Lodging Houses, now house and offices. 1793, altered
late C19 and C20. Coursed and squared millstone grit with
ashlar dressings and stepped Welsh slate roofs with stone
stacks.
PLAN: each pair has a shared central entry into L-plan house
with services to rear, except for the pair to right which has
been altered.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 12-window front arranged 4:4:4, each
house stepped down hill.
Nos 2A & 2B have off-centre round headed archway, moved late
C20, and to right a single C20 2/2 sash in plain ashlar
surround. Above two 6/6 sashes in similar surrounds. Either
side single wooden 2 storey canted bay windows with ashlar
basements. Above 4 small 2/2 sashes in plain ashlar surrounds.
Nos 2 & 3 and 4 & 5 each have central round headed archway in
plain ashlar surround with above two 6/6 sashes in plain
ashlar surrounds with moulded hoods. Either side wooden 2
storey canted bay windows with ashlar basements. Above are 4
small sashes, 6/3 to Nos 2 & 3 and 2/2 and 6/3 to Nos 4 & 5.
INTERIOR: of No.5; queen post roof. Survival of planked door
to attic, some panelled doors, one with fretted panels, also
shutters to upper rooms. Stone stairs rise from rear of
entrance hall, they have stencilled motif to treads, square
section rails and wreathed handrail. The brick vaulted cellars
are stone flagged and retain stone slabs raised on brick
pillars.
(Askey T: 1-5 Hall Bank (from the building accounts):
1790-1797; Hall I: Georgian Buxton: Chapel-en-le-Frith: 1984-:
35).

Listing NGR: SK0576273398

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550355

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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