Listed Building record MDR24351 - Nos. 2a-5 Hall Bank, Buxton

Nos. 2a-5 Hall Bank, Buxton, built in 1793. From the National Heritage List for England: 'BUXTON SK0573SE HALL BANK 616-1/4/37 (West side) 21/12/70 Nos.2A, 2B AND 2-5 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: HALL BANK Nos.1-5 (Consecutive)) GV II 3 paired Lodging Houses, now house and offices. 1793, altered late C19 and C20. Coursed and squared millstone grit with ashlar dressings and stepped Welsh slate roofs with stone stacks. PLAN: each pair has a shared central entry into L-plan house with services to rear, except for the pair to right which has been altered. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 12-window front arranged 4:4:4, each house stepped down hill. Nos 2A & 2B have off-centre round headed archway, moved late C20, and to right a single C20 2/2 sash in plain ashlar surround. Above two 6/6 sashes in similar surrounds. Either side single wooden 2 storey canted bay windows with ashlar basements. Above 4 small 2/2 sashes in plain ashlar surrounds. Nos 2 & 3 and 4 & 5 each have central round headed archway in plain ashlar surround with above two 6/6 sashes in plain ashlar surrounds with moulded hoods. Either side wooden 2 storey canted bay windows with ashlar basements. Above are 4 small sashes, 6/3 to Nos 2 & 3 and 2/2 and 6/3 to Nos 4 & 5. INTERIOR: of No.5; queen post roof. Survival of planked door to attic, some panelled doors, one with fretted panels, also shutters to upper rooms. Stone stairs rise from rear of entrance hall, they have stencilled motif to treads, square section rails and wreathed handrail. The brick vaulted cellars are stone flagged and retain stone slabs raised on brick pillars. (Askey T: 1-5 Hall Bank (from the building accounts): 1790-1797; Hall I: Georgian Buxton: Chapel-en-le-Frith: 1984-: 35). Listing NGR: SK0576273398.' (1)