The former stables at Chatsworth. Now home to restaurants and shops.

Grade I listed building.

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   PARISH OF CHATSWORTH CHATSWORTH PARK
   SK 2670
   6/83
   12.7.67 Former Stables at
   Chatsworth House
   GV I
   Stables, now in various uses as restaurant, dwellings and for
   storage. 1758-63 by James Paine, for the Fourth Duke of
   Devonshire. Coursed squared rock-faced sandstone and ashlar.
   Hipped Westmorland slate roofs. Various ashlar stacks. Plain
   ground floor sill band, impost band and moulded cornice. Four
   ranges around a square courtyard. Two storeys. The main front
   faces west and is of 1-3-1-3-1 bays. Impressive entrance bay
   has four attached columns with thick bands of cyclopic
   rustication, supporting the entablature and cornice and blind
   attic with coat of arms (carved by Henry Watson) under a
   pedimented gable, flanked by festoons. Clock and bell turret
   above in the form of a domed lantern with round-arched openings
   on each side. Tall round-arched rusticated entrance arch,
   flanked by round-arched glazing bar sashes with half-domed
   niches above, set within rectangular openings with lintels of
   long voussoirs. On either side a three-bay round-arched
   rusticated blind arcade, each bay containing a glazing bar sash
   under flat arch with pronounced voussoirs. Small segment headed
   glazing bar sashes above. Square end pavilions have a similar
   round-arched bay flanked by niches and beneath open pediments.
   Plain ashlar attics above with a small sash by the apex of the
   pediment, and a pyramid roof. North elevation principally of
   1-3-1-3-1 bays, but with an additional four bays to the east.
   It continues the same theme as to west but has a simpler
   entrance feature of large round-arch flanked by two tiers of
   sashes, the lower round arched. Blind attic above the cornice,
   with moulded coping and a line of sixteen ball finials. Plainer
   south elevation to the gardens, of 1-3-1-3-1 bays. Rusticated
   round-arches only to the centre and pavilion bays. Irregular
   fenestration to ground floor. Plain first floor band and row of
   small segment headed windows to first floor. Within the
   courtyard there is a rusticated open ground floor arcade of
   round arches. Ashlar above with small glazing bar sashes.
   Tripartite entrance features with all over rustication and pairs
   of ball finials above the cornice. The Gardens and Park are
   included on the Gardens Register at Grade I.

   Listing NGR: SK2619670269

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Source: English Heritage

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