Listed Building record MDR24544 - Denman House and Premises of Byway Café, Bridge Street and Water Lane, Bakewell

Denman House and premises of Byway Café, Bridge Street and Water Lane, Bakewell, an early 18th century building. From the National Heritage List for England: 'BAKEWELL SK2168 BRIDGE STREET 831-1/4/31 (South side) 13/03/51 Denman House (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET (South side) Premises on East corner of Water Lane occ. by Sketchley, Dunn & Byways Cafe...) GV II Includes: Premises of Byways Cafe WATER LANE. House, now various commercial premises. Early C18, altered. Deeply-coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-window range with shop fronts built out in front of ground floor; 2 rear wings with narrow yard between. Shop fronts flank a central doorway with panelled double doors, acanthus-carved consoles and segmental pediment. Main wall of house: large quoins; raised-edge architraves to 6/6 sashes on first floor and 3/6 sashes on second floor; second-floor band. Eaves cornice beneath corniced ashlar parapet with end dies. Ashlar end stack on right has band and cornice; corniced brick stack to rear of ridge on left. INTERIOR: original dog-leg staircase with slender turned balusters, deep-section handrail and half-balusters against shared rectangular newels. Fielded panelling to entrance lobby and to staircase dado up to first floor. C17 panelled door to rear of Choice Hair Salon. Byways Cafe occupies first-floor front rooms and has 6-panel door into room with painted fielded panelling with dado and cornice; C20 fireplace flanked by original wooden pilasters with triglyphs; arcaded-panel window shutters. Adjacent tea room with ducks-nest grate in bolection-moulded stone surround. Listing NGR: SK2184468538.' (1)