Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. House.

Rock House

WRENN ID
waiting-parapet-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1967
Type
House
Address
Rock House, Alport Lane, Youlgreave, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 220 646
Coordinates
53.17835, -1.67096
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rock House is a house that dates from the early to mid-18th century, with some alterations made in the mid-20th century. It is constructed from gritstone ashlar and coursed squared gritstone, featuring gritstone dressings and chamfered quoins. The roof is covered with stone slate and some concrete tiles from the 20th century, and it has stone gable end stacks. The gables are stone coped with plain kneelers and topped by ball finials. The early 18th-century section has a plinth and a coved eaves cornice, while the mid-18th-century section includes an additional plain eaves band.

The eastern part of the house is three storeys high with three bays, and it has a plain doorcase with raised jambs on either side, supporting a bracketed stone hood and an 18th-century panelled door. Flanking the door are glazing bar sashes in flush surrounds with raised fillets at the edges. Above the door, there are two similar sashes with a fixed glazing bar light in a moulded surround, and above that, a central circular window in a moulded surround. On either side, there are shallow uneven glazing bar sashes in similar surrounds.

To the west is the mid-18th-century wing, which features an early 20th-century canted bay in the centre, with glazing bar sashes in raised surrounds on all sides. On either side of the bay are similar sashes, and above, there are two more similar windows.

Local climate

Rock House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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