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Listed Building record MDR24539 - The Brooklands, Off Coombs Road, Bakewell

Type and Period (3)

  • (Georgian to 21st Century - 1775 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • (Georgian to 21st Century - 1775 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • (Georgian to 21st Century - 1775 AD? to 2050 AD)

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Full Description

The Brooklands, off Coombs Road, Bakewell, a late 18th century building. From the National Heritage List for England: 'BAKEWELL SK2268 COOMBS ROAD 831-1/5/87 (North East side) 07/01/70 The Brooklands including service range and linking wall (Formerly Listed as: COOMBS ROAD (North East side) Brooklands (The Pentecostal Eventide Home)) (Formerly Listed as: COOMBS ROAD (North East side) Cottage adjoining Brooklands) GV II House, now residential home for the elderly. Late C18, altered C19 and with C20 addition. Coursed sandstone, partly stuccoed; ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3x5-window ranges with single-storey porch and with 2-storey, one-bay side wing adjoined by lower L-shaped service range set around a small yard. Garden front (right return): raised quoins; wedge lintels; plinth now returned beneath tall 2/2 sashes. First floor: band and sill band to 2/2 sashes, the central window with architrave and cornice on consoles. Second floor: 2 casements and 3 3/3 sashes with projecting sills, central window with architrave. Cornice and blocking course form parapet to hipped roof with rolled-lead ridges and ashlar end stacks. Entrance front: 3-window range. Chamfered quoins to ashlar porch having part-glazed door flanked by mullions and side lights; cornice and blocking course to flat roof. Taller projection on left has tripartite sash (arranged 1/1:2/2:1/1) with consoles to the lintel. 6/6 and 3/3 sashes to main wall above; bay 3 is blind. Side wing on left: 8/8 and 6/6 sashes and band beneath stepped parapet. Service wing to far left: convex 2-storey end wall with coal cellar hatch beneath two 6/3 sashes; coped parapet with ashlar stack set back on left. Coped wall with gateway links to main house and screens a small inner yard surrounded on 2 sides by lean-tos against an L-shaped outer wall. INTERIOR: not fully inspected. Original staircases remain. House and part of rear service wing (formerly addressed as Cottage adjoining Brooklands) was first listed 20/05/74. Listing NGR: SK2251168527.' (1)

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245894?section=official-list-entry.

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Location

Grid reference SK 22511 68527 (point)
Civil Parish BAKEWELL, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Sep 18 2025 12:37PM

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