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

Bradley House Top House

WRENN ID
bitter-remnant-pigeon
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
Farmhouse
Address
Bradley House Top House, High Street, Pilsley, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 239 710
Coordinates
53.23599, -1.64276
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bradley House and Top House is a farmhouse that has been divided into two residences. It dates from the 17th century and was enlarged and altered in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and features a stone slate roof that has a coped gable to the west, complete with moulded kneelers. The gable stacks at Bradley House are made of ashlar and have a paired diamond plan.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a T-plan layout. Bradley House, which forms the head of the T, has a symmetrical three-bay east elevation. The central doorway is framed by stone jambs, a lintel, and a bracketed hood. It features a raised and fielded panel door with a rectangular overlight, flanked by three-light casement windows that have returned hoodmoulds. On the first floor, there are two similar windows on either side of a 2-light window.

At the rear, Top House has a three-bay south elevation. In the return angle, there is a blocked doorway with a small window set into it and the gable line of a porch. To the left, there is a 19th-century doorway with a stone lintel and a half-glazed door. Further left is a three-light window with timber mullions. The first floor features three 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows, topped with a moulded cornice. There is also a single-storey 20th-century bay to the west, which is not of special interest.

Local climate

Bradley House Top House receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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