Wharf Cottage (Now Rose Cottage and Meadow Close) is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1992. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Wharf Cottage (Now Rose Cottage and Meadow Close)
- WRENN ID
- western-oriel-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1992
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wharf Cottage (Now Rose Cottage and Meadow Close), 1 and 2, Mill Road, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 300 570
- Coordinates
- 53.10991, -1.55321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wharf Cottage, now Rose Cottage and Meadow Close, is a pair of canal wharf cottages dating from circa 1796, with extensions added in the early 19th century. They were built for the Cromford Canal Company. The cottages are constructed of coursed, squared, and dressed sandstone, with some red brick used in the extensions. They have a graduated Welsh slate roof with lead-roll ridges.
The main front is two storeys and three bays wide, with a single-storey wing extending to the rear right and a later two-storey wing to the rear left. The front has three windows on each floor, featuring projecting sills and plain lintels, likely of an inverted t-section. The window in the left-hand bay (Rose Cottage) is a 12-pane sash, while the windows in bays two and three (Meadow Close) are 20th-century casements with louvred shutters. A hipped roof has two ridge stacks, the one on the right being larger. The left return has a bricked-up door on the right, two part-glazed 6-panelled doors, and 12-pane sashes to each floor of the wing, along with a brick stack on the left. The cottages are included on the heritage list for their group value.
Local climate
Wharf Cottage (Now Rose Cottage and Meadow Close) 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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