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Visualisation of Blake House, Bakewell, restored: cleaned gritstone, a slate roof and a dark green shopfront and doors, the camera crossing the street and going in through the front door
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Current project · Bakewell

Blake House

Three storeys of gritstone on the corner of Bath Street, planned as two holiday apartments and three serviced units.

01The building

Three storeys of gritstone on the corner of Bath Street.

Blake House is the first building on the left as Bath Street turns off Buxton Road, seventy metres from Rutland Square. Coursed gritstone, a slate roof, sash windows upstairs and a broad plate-glass window at street level. For years the ground floor was an insurance broker's office and the top floor was used for storage. Our plan is to restore it floor by floor: holiday apartments upstairs, three serviced units at street level, and the stone, the windows and the proportions kept as they were built.

Floors
Three
Upstairs
Two holiday apartments, planned
Street level
Three serviced units, planned
Ground floor
About 62 sq m
Rutland Square
Seventy metres away
Visualisation of Blake House on the corner of Bath Street, restored: cleaned gritstone, a dark green shop window and doors, wall lightsVisualisation

02Before and after

Where we're starting.

Blake House as it is today, photographed in October 2026: empty offices on the ground floor and unused rooms at the top. The first floor is private and is not shown.

Now

The ground-floor corner room today: green carpet, ceiling tiles and the glazed street door

Planned

Visualisation of the same room restored as Unit 1: oak floor, sage walls and new lightingVisualisation
The corner room on the ground floor, which becomes Unit 1.
  • The ground-floor main office today: green carpet, ceiling tiles and an arched doorway

    Ground floor, main office

  • The ground-floor rear office today: green carpet and a window onto the yard

    Ground floor, rear office

  • An empty second-floor room with a small window under the eaves

    Second floor, front room

  • The second-floor kitchen today, under a sloping ceiling with a skylight

    Second floor, kitchen

  • An attic room on the second floor with a chandelier and stored boxes

    Second floor, attic room

03The plan

Apartments upstairs, units at street level.

  1. Visualisation

    Lettings

    Upstairs
    The First Floor, two bedrooms, and the Top Floor, one bedroom: holiday apartments booked directly with us.The apartments
  2. Visualisation

    Commercial

    Street level
    Three serviced units for small businesses, with the bills, Wi-Fi and cleaning in one monthly fee.The units

04Bakewell

In the middle of the Peak's market town.

Bath Street turns off Buxton Road seventy metres from Rutland Square, the middle of Bakewell. The Monday market, which the town has held for more than seven hundred years, the river, the pudding shops, the pubs and the Monsal Trail are all within walking distance. Pay-and-display car parks are a short walk away, and there is limited parking at the building by arrangement.

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  1. Monday market2 min on foot
  2. River Wye and the bridge5 min on foot
  3. Haddon Hall6 min by car
  4. Chatsworth House12 min by car
  5. Monsal Trail20 min on foot
  6. Manchester Airport65 min by car
Chatsworth House across the park, twelve minutes from Bakewell by car
Illustration of a stone shopfront with a dark green frame, lit at dusk on a wet cobbled street
Illustrative

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