Approximate Location Map
Large Map »
Latitude: 53.2552 / 53°15'18"N
Longitude: -1.918 / 1°55'4"W
OS Eastings: 405565
OS Northings: 373139
OS Grid: SK055731
Mapcode National: GBR HZ1S.KS
Mapcode Global: WHBBS.HFWT
Plus Code: 9C5W734J+3Q
Entry Name: 16 and 17, Broad Walk
Listing Date: 31 January 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1259423
English Heritage Legacy ID: 462927
ID on this website: 101259423
Location: Buxton, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK17
County: Derbyshire
District: High Peak
Electoral Ward/Division: Buxton Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Buxton
Traditional County: Derbyshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire
Church of England Parish: Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale
Church of England Diocese: Derby
Tagged with: Building Double house
SK0573SE
616-1/4/10
BUXTON
BROAD WALK
(East side)
Nos.16 AND 17
GV
II
Pair of semi-detached villas or boarding houses, now 2 houses.
Mid C19. Possibly by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Duke of
Devonshire. Coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings and
shallow hipped Welsh slate roof with bracketed overhanging
eaves and 3 stone stacks.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Raised quoins, chamfered plinth and
first-floor sill band. Each a 3-window range. Double-fronted
pair of houses each with a central doorway and part-glazed
door and overlight in moulded pilaster surrounds with
cornices, and above a segment headed 2/2 sash with keystone.
Either side are single 2-storey canted bay windows with
segment headed 2/2 and plain sashes and hipped slate roofs.
Above again a single central 2/2 sash flanked by tripartite
sashes.
Left return, 2/2 sashes and a 2-storey wooden canted bay
window to left with 2/2 and plain sashes. Right return,
similar sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The Broad Walk comprises a series of Victorian villas and a
walk overlooking the Pavilion Gardens originally laid out by
Paxton c1850, though most of the surrounding houses were built
by speculative developers. Some were reputed to be designed in
detail by his pupil Edward Milner from 1871, and built by
Saunders & Woolcott of London for the 7th Duke.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire:
Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 117).
Listing NGR: SK0556573139
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
