Castle Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. A C18 Terrace of cottages.
Castle Cottages
- WRENN ID
- slow-hinge-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Terrace of cottages
- Address
- Castle Cottages, Lower Road, Mackworth
- OS grid reference
- SK 313 378
- Coordinates
- 52.93689, -1.53496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Cottages is a terrace of four cottages, now converted into two, dating from the 18th century and raised in the 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and red brick, topped with a Welsh slate roof that features two brick ridge stacks. It stands two storeys high and has a chamfered stone plinth, likely made from stone taken from the nearby castle.
The south elevation consists of four bays. On the ground floor, from the left, there is a blocked doorway with a segmental arch, followed by two 2-light casement windows under segmental arches, a doorway with a segmental arch and a plank door, another similar blocked doorway, two more 2-light casement windows, and a final doorway with a segmental arch. The upper floor has four 2-light casement windows under flat arches.
Local climate
Castle Cottages receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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