Building Name

Cavanaleck 195 Lightwood Road Buxton Derbyshire

Date
1903 - 1904
Street
Lightwood Road
District/Town
Buxton
County/Country
Derbyshire, England
Partnership
Work
New Build
Listed
Grade II

LISTING TEXT - Two houses. 1903-04, by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Roughly coursed gritstone, with ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs with  overhanging eaves and moulded wooden barge boards plus part   rendered brick stack.     STYLE: Vernacular Revival.  EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement. Irregular, twin  gabled, 4 window street front. Single-storey centre has 2  small 2-light mullion windows, over 2 basement doors, and  above a 3-light raking dormer window. Left gable has a canted  ground floor corner bay window of 4-lights, with single light  window to right, and above a 3-light mullion window. Projecting right gable has two 4-light mullion windows to each  floor that wrap around the corners. Right return has off-centre doorway reached by steps and  recessed within an arched opening with angled sides plus apart glazed plank door with iron studs. Above a 4-light  mullion window, and to right a 2 storey projecting gable wing    with two 4-light mullion windows to each floor that wrap  around the corners.Above in the main gable a further 4-light     mullion window.     Left return has similar fenestration. All windows have square leaded casements. INTERIOR: reputed to have many of the original features. These    include: exposed ceiling joists to sitting room and inglenook  with stone fireplace with copper hood and settles, bookshelves above; recess for clock above bressumer: plain staircase with solid timber string and full height newels. Art Nouveau  influence in design of window furniture.

Reference           Pevsner N  The Buildings of England: Derbyshire: page 116