Wood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. Cottage.
Wood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-balcony-crag
- 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
- Wood Cottage, Idridgehay and Alton
- OS grid reference
- SK 278 479
- Coordinates
- 53.02793, -1.58553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage constructed of brick, featuring plain gables and a single brick stack. It has a plain tiled roof. The south elevation is two storeys high and consists of three bays, each with 2-light casement windows that have cast iron lattice glazing beneath shallow arched heads. The west end of the cottage includes single light frames, and there is an off-centre door. This building is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Wood 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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