Handley House and attached garden wall and gate is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1984. Farmhouse.

Handley House and attached garden wall and gate

WRENN ID
ruined-rotunda-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North East Derbyshire
Constituency
Bolsover MP: Natalie Fleet (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 August 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Handley House and attached garden wall and gate, Handley Lane, Stretton
OS grid reference
SK 376 618
Coordinates
53.15261, -1.43908
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Handley House is a farmhouse, now a house, built in 1723 with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with gritstone dressings and quoins, topped with a slate roof. It features moulded stone coped gables with plain kneelers and has brick gable end and ridge stacks, along with a coved eaves band. The house has three storeys and three bays. A projecting gabled stone porch, added in 1910, includes a chamfered quoined doorcase and a re-used lintel inscribed with 'HIM 1679'. The inner door features a moulded architrave and a 20th-century studded wooden door.

On the east side, there is a 19th-century window in a flush surround, while the west side has a 20th-century three-light flush mullion window with inserted masonry. Beyond this, there is an original three-light flush mullion window. The upper storey has three two-light flush mullion windows, and a third storey was added above with three casement windows in flush surrounds. Most of the windows have 20th-century leaded lights, except for the eastern ground floor window. A datestone on the rear gable is inscribed 'HIN 1723'.

Attached to the front of the house is a gritstone rubble wall with rounded copings that curves upwards to the east and west. To the west, there are early 20th-century rusticated square gate piers with plain bases, heavily moulded cornices, and large ball finials on top.

Local climate

Handley House and attached garden wall and gate receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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