Listed Building record MDR24347 - Winster Place, Spring Gardens, Buxton

Winster Place, Spring Gardens, Buxton, built in 1851. From the National Heritage List for England: 'BUXTON SK0573NE SPRING GARDENS 616-1/3/65 (North side) Nos.7-17 (Odd) Winster Place GV II Formerly known as: The Royal Hotel SPRING GARDENS. Hotel, now shops. 1851 with C20 alterations to ground floor. Built for the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Dressed tooled stone with ashlar dressings. Vermiculated quoins. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Vermiculated quoins. Moulded first-floor band and dentillated cornice with solid parapet. Curved front. Street front has 12 windows. Central recessed doorway with double glazed doors and overlight in moulded ashlar surround, outer opening has Ionic square columns and round columns in antis plus flat hood supported on paired brackets. To left 3 rusticated segmental arches with C20 shop windows. To right one similar segmental arch, and then 4 round headed rusticated arches with alternating C20 doors and shop windows. Above central window in moulded surround with brackets supporting an open pediment, flanked by 6 cross casement windows with alternating segmental and triangular pediments plus bracketed sills. Above a central segment headed window with moulded surround and block cartouche, flanked by 6 similar windows with plain surrounds keystones and bracketed sills, all with 2-light casements. Curved right corner has C20 doorway with above a cross casement in moulded surround with segmental pediment, above a blank panel. Right return has 3 windows, with similar fenestration to main facade. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Heape R: Buxton under the Dukes of Devonshire: London: 1948-: 105). Listing NGR: SK0595773577.' (1)