The Mansion Including Coach House Wall is a Grade I listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. A Late C17 House. 8 related planning applications.
The Mansion Including Coach House Wall
- WRENN ID
- strange-moat-thrush
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Mansion Including Coach House Wall, Church Street, Ashbourne
- OS grid reference
- SK 177 465
- Coordinates
- 53.01561, -1.73718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mansion is a large house built around 1685, with significant alterations and additions dating from around 1765 to 1784. It is constructed of red brick with bands at the first and second floor sill heights. The building has a corbelled plaster cornice and a parapet with inset balustrades, topped by an open pediment over the central bay. The roof is not visible. The main facade is of three bays, with two windows on each side and a Venetian window in the centre, featuring a semi-circular tripartite window above. A single-windowed three-storey portion of the earlier facade remains to the west. The garden front features side gables and a central, raised Doric gabled porch leading to a domed, octagonal Music Room.
To the north-east of the main facade, only the wall of the former coach house/stable remains, exhibiting arched features and contributing to the overall character of the site.
Inside, an elegant staircase has laced iron balusters and a balcony supported on marble pillars of Ionic order. The house features fireplaces, doors, and some panelling with bolection moulding. The plaster ceilings include Rococo motifs in the Music Room. The Mansion was the home of Dr Taylor from 1710 to 1788, and was frequently visited by Dr Johnson between 1737 and 1784.
The house is part of a group that includes Nos 38, 40 and 72, Pegg's and Owlfield's Almshouses, a summerhouse, cobbled pavements, the parish Church of St Oswald, and the churchyard gate piers, gates and walls.
Local climate
The Mansion Including Coach House Wall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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