House Buxton

The house here illustrated was recently erected from the designs of Messrs Charles Heathcote and Sons, architects, Manchester. The situation is a particularly good one with wide views of Axe Edge and the high hills on the border of Derbyshire and Cheshire. The house was designed for four entertaining rooms but this accommodation was cut down in erection to three. The billiard room has a large and deep fireplace recess or nook, and is used as an inner hall with billiard table. The outer walls are of rubble stone faced with Huddersfield parpoints and lined throughout with brick. The roofs are covered with red semi-vitreous tiles laid on felt. The house is warmed throughout by low pressure hot water, put in by Mr Hatton of Manchester. The builders were Messrs Southern and Sons of Salford. The masonry was executed by the late Mr Gladwin of Buxton. Stabling and greenhouses are situated in the rear of the site. [Builder 15 March 1902 page 266].

Reference           Builder 15 March 1902 page 266 and illustration by Roger Oldham