The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. A C19 Cottage.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pewter-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Idridgehay and Alton
- OS grid reference
- SK 278 479
- Coordinates
- 53.02801, -1.58553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located in Ireton Wood, within the parish of Idridgehay and Alton. It features a front made of coursed squared gritstone, with rubble on the other sides. The building has plain gables, brick stacks at each end of the ridge, and a plain tiled roof. It is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are framed in cast iron, with glazing bars and central opening lights set beneath deep lintels. There is a narrow window with modern casement on the first floor in the center, and the central doorway has a plain door also beneath a deep lintel.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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