Buxton Crescent

Buxton Crescent is a Grade-I-listed building in the city of Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Owing plenty to the Royal Crescent in Bath, however defined by the Royal Institution of British Architects as "more richly adorned and altogether extra complicated", it became designed by the architect John Carr, and built for the Fifth Duke of Devonshire between 1780 and 1789. Over time, St. Ann's Hotel at the western cease of the Crescent, and the Great Hotel, incorporating the Assembly Rooms on the eastern cease, took over the intervening lodging houses in the centre of the building.

The western cease served as a inn. The eastern give up served as council workplaces, a library and a sanatorium. The lodge on the western give up closed in the mid-1980s due to the high fee of necessary repairs. The complete constructing became closed while most important structural troubles have been located inside the assembly rooms, and by using 1992 lay empty. The inn component turned into offered by means of the neighborhood council in 1993, at which period the complete building fell into public possession.