Description

BAKEWELL

SK2168 MATLOCK STREET
831-1/4/124 (West side)
13/03/51 The Beeches
(Formerly Listed as:
MATLOCK STREET
(West side)
Bakewell Precision Grinding Co. Ltd.)

GV II

Villa, now offices. Early C19. Coursed sandstone with ashlar
dressings; Welsh slate roof. Gothick style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays with lower hipped-roof wing to
rear-left corner. Symmetrical front with slight central
projection; Large quoins. 6-panel double door and fanlight
with intersecting tracery in pointed-arched surround with
hoodmould.
Outer bays and first floor have projecting stone sills to
sashes with intersecting glazing bars in matching
pointed-arched surrounds with hoodmoulds.
Projecting eaves on pairs of shaped wooden brackets.
Hipped roof with end stacks having diagonally-set flues with
cornices (right end stack truncated).
INTERIOR: entrance hall has reeded architraves with roundels.
Original staircase with square rods to wreathed mahogany
handrail.
Front left room: fascia framing to plaster wall panels with
paterae; frieze with husk garlands and Neo-classical female
figures; more husk garlanding to the ceiling.
The house is surrounded by a raised ashlar pavement.

Listing NGR: SK2181368324

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539594

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version