Dam and Waterwheel is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. A Victorian Dam, waterwheel.
Dam and Waterwheel
- WRENN ID
- keen-quartz-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- Dam, waterwheel
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Dam and Waterwheel, Lime Avenue, Osmaston
- OS grid reference
- SK 205 422
- Coordinates
- 52.97733, -1.69594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dam and waterwheel are located at the south end of the main lake and were built in the late 1840s by Stevens of Derby. The structure is made of coursed squared rock-faced limestone and features an embankment dam with a curved plan and walls that have a slight batter. A footpath runs along the top of the dam, with stone steps descending on each side of the curved walls, which are enclosed by plain iron railings. The waterwheel is of the overshoot type and is attached to a wooden hut that has a corrugated iron and stone slate roof. Inside the hut, there is a pumping engine that remains in situ.
Local climate
Dam and Waterwheel 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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