Toplas Farmhouse and attached range of outbuildings to west is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. Farmhouse, outbuilding.
Toplas Farmhouse and attached range of outbuildings to west
- WRENN ID
- little-bronze-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, outbuilding
- Address
- Toplas Farmhouse and attached range of outbuildings to west, Barnsley Lane, Ashleyhay
- OS grid reference
- SK 293 512
- Coordinates
- 53.05808, -1.56377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Toplas Farmhouse and the attached range of outbuildings date from the late 18th century. The buildings are constructed from regularly coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings, featuring intermediate and end brick ridge stacks, and a plain tiled roof with a hipped end to the west. The structure includes the farmhouse and an attached outbuilding, with the west range consisting of outbuildings.
The south range is two storeys high and has five bays, with the three eastern bays forming the house. It features two-light flush mullioned windows with 19th-century glazing bar casements. There is an off-centre doorway with a quoined surround, a heavy lintel, and a 20th-century planked door. A staircase leads down to a cellar located to the west of the doorway. The attached outbuilding to the west has two quoined doorways, one of which is now blocked and serves as a window, while the other has a planked stable door. Above this doorway are two two-light casements in plain openings.
The west range is also two storeys and consists of three bays, featuring three regularly placed quoined doorways. There are square window openings with glazing bar windows in between, and above these are two rectangular openings along with a tall taking-in doorway.
Local climate
Toplas Farmhouse and attached range of outbuildings to west receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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