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A look around Buxton in Derbyshire.

The Old Courthouse on George Street in Buxton. On this side is The Old Courthouse Wine & Coffee Bar - The Tea Chest.

The fifth Duke of Devonshire built The Old Court House which now houses a variety of shops.

Grade II listed building.

The Old Court House Shops and Restaurant, Buxton

   BUXTON

   SK0573NE GEORGE STREET
   616-1/3/36 (South side)
   The Old Court House, shops and
   restaurant

   GV II

   Formerly known as: Court House GEORGE STREET.
   Also known as: Masonic Hall, Court House GEORGE STREET.
   Marked on the OS map as Masonic Hall.
   Former estate office, court house and Masonic hall, now shops
   and restaurant. Mid C18, altered 1803-1806 by John White for
   the Duke of Devonshire, with C19 alterations and C20
   refurbishment. Coursed and dressed millstone grit with ashlar
   dressings and Welsh slate roofs with stone stacks.
   EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3-storey. Street front 11 windows
   arranged 2:5:2:2 each under separate roofs. Set-back wing to
   left 3 storey and 2 windows. 2 round headed openings on ground
   floor, partly obscured by external stone staircase with iron
   balustrade leading to upper floor and glazed panel door with
   overlight, to left a 3/3 sash, and above 2 further 3/3 sashes.
   Projecting central 2 storey 5-window range, with first-floor
   sill band and coped blind parapet. Central doorway with raised
   surround and glazed door with overlight flanked by C20
   tripartite shopfronts and doors, beyond either side round
   headed, former, doorways with C20 shopfronts and blocked
   arches. Above 5 very tall 4/2 sashes. Set-back wing to right 2
   storey, 2 windows, with central former doorway with fixed
   window and to left a round headed doorway with C20 double
   doors and fixed window beyond, to right 2 former doorways now
   with enlarged C20 shopfronts. Above 2 plain sashes with C20
   louvred shutters, linked by sill band. Set-back single storey
   wing to right with 2 round headed openings with linking impost
   band and keystones, both with plate glass shop windows and
   fanlights.
   Rear main block originally 5 windows, central round headed
   doorway now blocked, with later doors to right built over to
   left. Above central window blocked, with 2 sashes to left and
   2 blocked windows to right.
   INTERIOR: of main block: re-roofed C20: 1st floor with new
   partitions retains original details such as some folding
   panelled shutters to windows, moulded door surrounds; one with
   prominent moulded architrave, 4-panelled doors (one folding
   door), engaged columns and some raised panelling. The ground
   floor is vaulted. The right-hand blocks have been
   substantially altered C20.
   Reputedly built as Estate Office for the Duke of Devonshire,
   used as Court House, Assembly Rooms and Masonic Hall.
   (Leach John: The Book Of Buxton: Leicester: 1987-).

   Listing NGR: SK0576573576

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage