Description

BUXTON

SK07SE ST JOHN'S ROAD
616-1/2/63 (North side)
No.20
Claremont

GV II

House, now flats. 1876, extended 1930 and converted mid C20.
Dressed millstone grit with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate
Mansard roof with stone stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical entrance front has
3 windows. Central doorway with part glazed door and overlight
in ashlar surround with 2 Corinthian columns and flat hood
with curved top inscribed 1876. Above a 2/2 sash in moulded
ashlar surround with bracketed sill and segmental pediment.
Either side single 2 storey canted stone bay windows with lead
roofs and 2/2 and plain sashes. Above 3 segment headed dormer
windows each with a 2/2 sash.
Right return has 4 windows arranged 2:2. Left block has 2
sashes to each floor, that to ground floor right has later
stained glass, and above 2 segment headed dormers. Right block
has similar fenestration topped with 2 through eaves gabled
dormer windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK0551373503

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549314

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]