The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-mortar-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Somersal Herbert, Ashbourne, DE6 5PD
- OS grid reference
- SK 138 351
- Coordinates
- 52.91362, -1.79514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century that was restored in 1952. It is constructed with a timber frame and red brick infill, topped with a thatched roof featuring a single brick stack positioned just off the ridge. The building is a single storey with attics, and box framing is visible on all four sides. The north elevation includes a doorway on the right with a plank door, a two-light casement window to the right, and three similar two-light windows to the left. Above, there is an eyebrow dormer with another two-light window. Inside, the cottage features inglenook fireplaces, exposed beams, and stud partitions.
Local climate
The Old Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 1996
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- 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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