Assembly Rooms Open Access

Come and join us in the Assembly Rooms any time between 11am and 4pm and see where the 5^th Duke of Devonshire arranged for lavish balls to be held in the 18^th Century. 

The room is considered to be the last, and best, of Carr’s great rooms with the decorative ceiling plasterwork heavily influenced by the work of Robert Adam, its five sets of mahogany doors inlaid with rosewood and its two marble fire pieces. By the middle of the 19th century, times had changed, the fashionable set had moved on and the balls in Buxton came to an end and the room was then used as a hotel dining room and, more recently, as the Buxtons’ reference library until 1992.