The Stocks is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1985. House.
The Stocks
- WRENN ID
- high-dormer-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Stocks, Main Street, Little Longstone, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 192 719
- Coordinates
- 53.2439, -1.71321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Stocks is a house dated 1578, constructed from rubble limestone with gritstone dressings. It features a stone slate roof and stone coped gables, complete with plain kneelers and ball finials. The building has stone ridge and gable end stacks and stands two storeys tall. The south elevation consists of three bays. On the left, there is a gabled bay with a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window, and a similar window is asymmetrically placed above it. The date 1578 is displayed at the apex of the gable. To the right, there is a doorway with a stone lintel and a 20th-century plank door, followed by a 4-light recessed and chamfered mullion window. Above this, there is another 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window.
Local climate
The Stocks 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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