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Latitude: 53.2644 / 53°15'51"N
Longitude: -1.9186 / 1°55'7"W
OS Eastings: 405524
OS Northings: 374159
OS Grid: SK055741
Mapcode National: GBR HZ1P.FJ
Mapcode Global: WHBBS.H6LS
Plus Code: 9C5W737J+QG
Entry Name: John Duncan School Wye House
Listing Date: 31 January 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1259375
English Heritage Legacy ID: 462964
Also known as: John Duncan School
The Chateau & Wye House
ID on this website: 101259375
Location: Nithen End, High Peak, Derbyshire, SK17
County: Derbyshire
District: High Peak
Electoral Ward/Division: Corbar
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Buxton
Traditional County: Derbyshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire
Church of England Parish: Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale
Church of England Diocese: Derby
Tagged with: House
BUXTON
SK07SE CORBAR ROAD
616-1/2/30 (North West side)
John Duncan School, Wye House
II
Formerly known as: Corbar Hill House CORBAR ROAD.
Also known as: John Duncan School CORBAR STREET.
Detached house. Late C19, minor C20 addition. Reputedly built
for Ryder family. Rock-faced millstone grit with ashlar
dressings. Mansard pavilion roofs of Westmoreland slate with
stone stacks.
STYLE: French Chateau.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey plus attic. Plinth, ground floor lintel
band, first-floor sill band and moulded eaves. Symmetrical
7-window front with taller 3-light central section. Central
doorway in moulded ashlar door surround with double
half-glazed 6-panel doors and above a segment headed plain
sash in moulded ashlar surround topped by oval dormer with
ashlar surround. Either side slightly projecting 2 storey
tripartite plain sashes, those to upper floor segment headed
topped with pavilion roofs and moulded ashlar gabled dormers
with 2 sashes. Beyond set-back sections single plain sashes in
moulded ashlar surrounds, those to upperfloor segment headed.
Either side single 2 storey canted bay windows with plain
sashes, those to upper floor segment headed, both outer bays
topped with oval dormer windows in moulded ashlar surrounds.
Returns have similar 2 storey canted bay windows, and plain
sashes.
INTERIOR: original staircase remains, and also some
plasterwork.
Built as Corbar Hill House, this building is not to be
confused with Wye House (now Cavendish School and not
included) built by Henry Currey 1862, also on Corbar Road.
Listing NGR: SK0552474159
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