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  Location within Derbyshire | |
| Location | Bakewell, Derbyshire |
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| Coordinates | 53°12′49″N1°40′47″W / 53.2135°N 1.6798°W |
| Website | www |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
| Official name | Old House Museum including mounting block |
| Designated | 20 April 1954 |
| Reference no. | 1247512 [1] |
The Old House Museum in the town of Bakewell in Derbyshire is a typical 16th-century yeoman's house that now houses a small museum with an exhibition of local life and artefacts. [2]
The house was originally owned by the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, [2] and was built as a tithe (tax collector's dwelling). Built in 1534 of vernacular construction it formed the four southern rooms of the present building. The house was extended in 1549 reflecting the growing prosperity from the tithe collecting.
The building is Grade II* listed. [1]
The museum is open daily from 11 am to 4 pm from 25 March to 5 November. It covers the lives of its former inhabitants including Christopher Plant, the Tudor tithe collector; Sir Richard Arkwright who quartered his mill workers in the building; and the Pitt family who lived in one of the cottages in the Victorian era. [3]
Bakewell is a market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, known for Bakewell pudding. It lies on the River Wye, 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Sheffield. At the 2011 census, the population of the civil parish was 3,949. It was estimated at 3,695 in 2019. The town is close to the tourist attractions of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall.
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Thomas Bateman was an English antiquary and barrow-digger.
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Conksbury is the site of a deserted medieval settlement between Over Haddon and Youlgreave in Derbyshire, England.
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St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Sheldon is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Sheldon, Derbyshire.
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