Description

BUXTON

SK0573SE HIGH STREET
616-1/4/49 (East side)
No.33
Sun Inn

GV II

Coaching inn, now public house. Probably mid C18, altered and
extended C19 and C20. Rendered and incised painted dressed
stone for door and window surrounds. Welsh slate roof and 4
stone stacks.
PLAN: 3-unit plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, irregular 4-window front. Painted plinth.
Off-centre doorway with panel door in painted surround with
hood. Either side single plain sashes in painted surrounds, to
right a similar sash and beyond a doorway with painted
surround and hood, to left a large segment headed carriage
arch with double plank doors. Above a pair of large plain
sashes in painted surrounds flanked by similar single sashes,
and to left a single through eaves raking dormer with plain
sash.
Rear elevation, irregular 5-window front arranged 3:2. Lean-to
to left has off-centre plank door with 2 casements to left and
single plain sash to right. Above 2 plain sashes and a smaller
sash to right. Gabled wing to right has flat headed carriage
arch and above a plain sash to right a former loft doorway now
a casement window.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK0576673036

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Sun Inn official website
• Wikidata Q26550368

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide