Buxton Tower
Has been described as a Possible Tower House
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
| Name | Buxton Tower |
| Alternative Names | Old Hall Hotel; St Anne's Well |
| Historic Country | Derbyshire |
| Modern Authority | Derbyshire |
| 1974 Authority | Derbyshire |
| Civil Parish | Buxton |
The earl of Shrewsbury constructed a tower house by 1572 beside the newly fashionable springs at Buxton. A smaller version of this structure also built by the earl in 1574, still survives at Sheffield Manor in Yorkshire. (Goodall, p. 459)
Town house, now hotel. 1572, altered 1672, rebuilt 1725-35, extended mid C18 and 1795-1805, with late C19 refenestration and C20 alterations. Originally built for the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury. Ashlar gritstone and render with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate hipped roofs and stone stacks. INTERIOR: shows sections of original C16 building survive encased within later additions. Surviving features include 3 ft. thick original walling, exposed wall studding to basement, doorways with depressed arched lintels and chamfered and stopped surrounds, some re-used, concealed mullion windows; original plasterwork to first floor principal room with encased beam with rolled mouldings. Second floor has blocked 4-light mullioned and transomed windows (concealed). HISTORY: until recently it was believed that the 1572 building was demolished in 1670. The original building reputed to have been one of many houses belonging to the Earl of Shrewsbury used to imprison Mary Queen of Scots. (Listed Building Report)
Not scheduled
This is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law
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| OS Map Grid Reference | SK057734 |
| Latitude | 53.2580299377441 |
| Longitude | -1.91524994373322 |
| Eastings | 405754 |
| Northings | 373477 |
