The Quarryman is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1973. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Quarryman
- WRENN ID
- tangled-steel-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1973
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Quarryman, 1 Market Place, Wirksworth, DE4 4ET
- OS grid reference
- SK 286 539
- Coordinates
- 53.08223, -1.57443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quarryman is an early 19th-century building located on the west side of Market Place. It is constructed of red brick and has two storeys plus an attic. The front features two later sash windows with keyblocks and channelled lintels, a moulded wooden doorcase with a plain 19th-century cornice hood supported on consoles, and plain eaves. The roof is tiled. The building is part of a group that includes numbers 4 to 13 and number 15 on the same side of Market Place. It was formerly known as the Black's Head Inn.
Local climate
The Quarryman 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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