Description

PARISH OF DRONFIELD CHESTERFIELD ROAD
SK 37 NE
(North Side)
6/19
Chiverton House,
9.1.67 attached boundary
walls gatepiers
and railings (No 41)
II*
GV
House. C17, 1712 and C19 alterations. Coursed squared coal
measures sandstone with ashlar dressings, coped gables with
moulded kneelers, ashlar ridge stacks, reduced in height and a
stone slated roof. Symmetrical plan with advanced towers to
either end, and a broad central gable. Two storeys and attics,
six bays, the two centre bays below the middle gable, and with
small gabled attic dormers giving access to the tops of the
towers. Central doorway with rusticated ashlar surround and
lintel and with advanced keyblock integral with perimeter band
which returns in shouldered form onto the jambs. C20 glazed
door with glazing bars. Flanking the doorway are 2-light
chamfer mullioned windows with transoms, the mullions slightly
recessed, all beneath a continuous string which steps down over
the door head. Flanking the central bays are paired mullioned
and transomed windows; this pattern is repeated at first floor
level, where there is also a continuous stringcourse. Within
the gables are two 2-light chamfer mullioned windows, beneath a
continuous dripmould. The gable apex has a single light C17
opening. The west gable has two 2-light chamfer mullioned
windows to the attic, and has been previously roughcast. The
rear elevation is partially enclosed by a full height offshut
with a steeply pitched roof. Interior. At the west end the C17
hearth survives with a segmental arch to the head of a wide
hearth. Within the central bays a full height stair with turned
balusters in pine survives. The remaining ground floor rooms
were remodelled in the C19. The front of the house is enclosed
by stepped stone walls with flat copings to east and west, and
is retained by a stone wall at the front with a slightly curved
coping. At either end of the terrace wall, and flanking the
central stepped approach are ashlar gatepiers, square on plan,
each with a moulded cornice surmounted by acorn finials and
plain ball finials to the end piers. The walls support
ornamental cast iron railings and double gates at the entrance.
To the east of the most easterly pier is a tall stone wall,
pierced at the centre by a doorway with an elliptical arched
head, and a plain planked door. The wall curves upwards at the
eastern end to link with the eaves of the adjacent outbuilding.
History. An unlistable garden wall to the rear of the house
appears to be that which is depicted on a plan of the house
standing on the site in 1692. The 1712 date is accompanied by
the initials JB, which refer to John Brown of Heston, Middlesex,
who purchased the house in 1711.

Listing NGR: SK3551278467

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546300

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair