James Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
James Cottage
- WRENN ID
- watchful-hearth-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- James Cottage, Main Street, Kniveton, DE6 1JH
- OS grid reference
- SK 207 501
- Coordinates
- 53.04854, -1.6926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
James Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage, located on the west side of Main Street in the parish of Kniveton. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone with gritstone dressings. The roof is tiled, and features a brick gable end stack. The cottage is two storeys high, with flush stone quoins. A single 3-light chamfered stone mullion window is present on both the ground and first floors. A porch was added in the 1970s.
Local climate
James Cottage 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 — 11 transactions since 2000
- 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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