Tara Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. House.
Tara Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hollow-cobalt-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tara Cottage, Brook Bottom, New Mills
- OS grid reference
- SJ 986 864
- Coordinates
- 53.37482, -2.02249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tara Cottage is an early 18th-century house constructed from squared rubble and topped with a slate roof. It features a four-bay, single-depth design with two storeys. The building has stone quoins and a heavy, square-cut door surround. On the ground floor, there are four windows: one with two lights and three with three lights, all featuring flat-faced stone mullions and surrounds. The first floor has two similar windows and three others that have had their mullions removed. There are signs of blocked door openings in the fourth bay. The cottage has gable chimney stacks and two-light mullion windows on each gable.
Local climate
Tara Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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