Potters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1979. House.
Potters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-brick-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Potters Cottage, 27 Main Road, South Darley, DE4 2JY
- OS grid reference
- SK 269 619
- Coordinates
- 53.15443, -1.59808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Potters Cottage is a stone house dating from 1763, as indicated by a date plaque inscribed 'Jonathan and Alice Potter 1763'. The house features a symmetrical elevation and a long southern wing, which was formerly a separate cottage. It faces a T-junction across a small front garden. The building is constructed of coursed gritstone with quoins, an eaves cornice, and a roof that has coped gable ends and kneelers. The roof is now covered with modern tiles and has end chimneys.
The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows, each with two lights, featuring stone band surrounds and square section stone mullions. Above the central door, there is a flat stone door hood supported by consoles. The southern wing, which dates from the 18th century, has altered fenestration.
Inside, the main house contains three stone fireplaces. One fireplace has a large stone hood supported by moulded corbels and chamfered jambs, while the other two have plain stone surrounds with triangular cornices forming the mantlepieces. There are also two stop-chamfered beams, one of which has moulded stops.
Local climate
Potters Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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