Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. House.

Rock House

WRENN ID
proud-panel-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
House
Address
Rock House, Buxton Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 215 688
Coordinates
53.21616, -1.67829
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rock House is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century and the early 19th century. It is constructed of rubble limestone with sandstone dressings and features stone slate and Welsh slate roofs.

The building has two storeys and a two-window range, with an earlier wing at the rear right side facing the road. On the garden front, there is a glazed 20th-century door beneath a stone lintel, with a 2/2 sash window to the left and a 4/8 sash window to the right. There is another door and a small casement window leading into an outbuilding under the same roof on the left. On the first floor, there are two 8/8 sash windows that rise as corniced, flat-roofed dormers. The right side facing the road features a brick end stack and a brick ridge stack.

On the right return, there are two 4/4 sash windows and an 8/8 sash window on the ground floor, along with a 2-light square-faced mullioned window on each floor, both glazed with 4/4 sashes, and an end stack. A lean-to on the right has a boarded door. The left return has a small flight of stone steps leading to a boarded loft door. The interior has not been inspected.

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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