Beech Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. House.
Beech Cottage
- WRENN ID
- veiled-lantern-auburn
- 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
- Beech Cottage, Castle Street, Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales, DE45 1DU
- OS grid reference
- SK 218 687
- Coordinates
- 53.21503, -1.67446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottage is a house and outbuilding that were combined into an enlarged dwelling in 1994. The building dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century and is constructed of mixed limestone and sandstone rubble, topped with stone slate roofs.
The house is two storeys high and features a three-window range. To the left, the outbuilding shares the same roof and is of similar length. There is also a single-storey wing attached to the front right of the house. The structure has large quoins and dressed stone surrounds with painted projecting stone sills. The entrance includes a four-panel door with a 2/2 sash window to the left and a squat 12/12 sash window on the right. On the first floor, there are three 8/8 sash windows. The end stacks are made of ashlar and feature bands and cornices. The single-storey wing is ashlar-faced, with a boarded door and a casement window located beneath the eaves of its monoclinal roof. The interior has not been inspected. The outbuilding to the left of the house has a blank front wall, with a French window opening added in 1994.
Local climate
Beech Cottage 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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