Listed Building: RUTLAND ARMS HOTEL (1316480)

Hotel. 1804 with later additions and alterations. Deeply-coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 plus one-window range to Rutland Square; 4-window range to King Street on left return; later single-storey, 3-window range side wing set back on right. Large quoins; first-floor band; projecting stone sills and grooved wedge lintels to 8/12 sashes on ground and first floors; 8/8 sashes to second floor. Main 5-window range part: painted central porch with Doric columns and entablature surmounted by arms of the Duke of Rutland; glazed door and fanlight with radial glazing bars. Moulded eaves cornice to hipped roof with various corniced ashlar stacks set to rear. Single-bay wing, set back on right, is in same style with hipped right end to the roof with corniced stack. Later wing set further back on right has three 6/6 sashes and hipped roof. INTERIOR: staircase with 3 slats to each tread, wreathed and ramped handrail without newels. Restaurant to rear left has cast-iron grate with side hobs, consoles and relief-scrollwork fireback in marble surround with colonnettes. Similar grate with wooden surround in front-left lounge. HISTORY: built on the site of the former White Horse Inn. Bakewell Pudding originated here under the proprietorship of Mrs Greaves, sister-in-law to Sir Joseph Paxton.