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Chiverton House's Owner, Mr Geoffrey Rhodes
Image ref
DCNE000266
Credit
Old Dronfield Society, Clareborough Collection
photographer
Copyright Reserved
ImageDate
1988
Location
Chesterfield Road
Town
Dronfield
About this image
Mr Rhodes (1918-1999) and his bloodhound, Maxwell, standing outside his home, Chiverton House, A grade II listed building, built in 1712 on the site of an existing tudor timber-framed house. It has a symmetrical front with a middle gable all in stone, with mullioned and crossed windows, of a style quite outdated at the time it was built. It only had three main rooms on the ground floor, but had the luxury of en-suite wig powdering rooms! It was built for a lead merchant called Richard Hall, and was later the property of the Dukes of Newcastle, then The Craven-Smith-Milnes of Winkburn, Nottinghamshire. From 1888 it was occupied by the Rhodes family, local colliery owners. It was re-roofed in the 1980's because of a collapsing roof ridge beam. See DCNE000265 for a larger picture of the house
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