Description

BAKEWELL

SK2168 BUTTS VIEW
831-1/4/47 (East side)
Butts House and attached garden
wall to South

GV II

House and attached garden wall. C18, altered C19 and C20.
Mixed limestone and sandstone rubble; coursed sandstone and
partly roughcast; tiled roof with shaped-tile bands; some
Welsh slate. Irregular T-shaped plan having front wing
projecting from bay 3 and porch in left angle under catslide
roof
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic, 2:1:1-bay garden front;
chamfered quoins. Porch has part-glazed door in stone
architrave with plain frieze and cornice. C18 main wall to
left with large 8/8 sash to ground floor and 8/12 sash above;
projecting stone sills to ashlar surrounds; eaves cornice.
Front wing probably early C19: roughcast end wall with late
C19 canted bay window having central French window; ashlar
surrounds; brackets to hipped roof of shaped Welsh slates. 8/8
sash to first floor; eaves cornice.
Set back on right is a gabled side wing with part-glazed door
on left of tripartite window having central 2/2 sash; 6/6 sash
over.
The side wing projects from a continuation of the main range,
the roof of which has been raised probably in early C20 to
allow extra storey with hipped roof and rear-facing gable.
Main roof has ashlar copings and stack at left end; ridge
stack above the porch and tulip cresting to roll-moulded ridge
tiles.
Front wing with hipped roof and corniced lateral stack on
right. Left returns: 2/2 sashes to porch; wing has sill band
cut by 6/6 sash; 8/8 sash over.
INTERIOR: ground-floor room of front wing has Neo-Classical
style fire surround; decorative wall frieze runs into the bay
window; panelled window shutters and 6-panel door with raised
beads.
Main range has some reused oak panelling and 2 C17 panelled
doors; 2 other doorways with reeded architraves. Chamfered oak
beam in central ground-floor room.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURE: wall attached to left return has
round-arched doorway next to the house. Wall is of
deeply-coursed sandstone with ashlar copings and is
approximately 3m in height at maximum; continues for
approximately 30m to south.

Listing NGR: SK2159868374

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26441014

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