Gardener's House and Attached Walls to North East of Ashford Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. House.

Gardener's House and Attached Walls to North East of Ashford Hall

WRENN ID
watchful-chalk-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1984
Type
House
Address
Gardener's House and Attached Walls to North East of Ashford Hall, Baslow Road, Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 200 698
Coordinates
53.2254, -1.70051
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gardener's House and attached walls, located to the northeast of Ashford Hall, date from the late 18th century. Constructed from ashlar gritstone with gritstone dressings and quoins, the building features a hipped roof made of graduated slate with lead flashings. It has stone ridge stacks with simple cornices, a plain eaves band, and a shallow plinth. The house is two storeys high and consists of two bays.

At the center, there is a full-height tetrastyle portico in antis, supported by Tuscan columns and topped with a plain pediment. The walls between the bases of the columns are shallow. On either side of the portico, there are doorcases with stepped architraves. The house has Venetian windows with a plain stringcourse at the impost level on either side, featuring flush aedicules, except for the central light which has a stepped design. The windows are fitted with glazing bar sashes. Above these, there are diocletian windows with stepped aedicules on either side, and central glazing bar sashes with small pane side casements.

Attached to the house are curving espalier walls made of red brick, with courses of gritstone on the west side and regular blocks of gritstone on the east side, both topped with flat copings. There are doorways on either side of the house, with steps leading up to the eastern door. At each end of the walls, square gritstone piers with moulded cornices are topped by ball finials.

Local climate

Gardener's House and Attached Walls to North East of Ashford Hall 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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