Garden House to the west of Highlow Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. Garden house.
Garden House to the west of Highlow Hall
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-timber-hawk
- 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
- Garden house
- OS grid reference
- SK 218 800
- Coordinates
- 53.31731, -1.67339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House, located to the west of Highlow Hall, dates from around 1700. It is constructed of ashlar gritstone, rising from a chamfered plinth on a quoined rubble base. The building features a plain eaves band and a pyramidal stone slate roof topped with an acorn finial. It is two storeys high and square in plan. The northeast elevation includes a window opening directly above the doorway, which extends upward through the rubble base into the ashlar work. The openings are framed with projecting flat-faced surrounds. The doorway contains a plain planked door, while the window has a squat timber door in its upper part, with the lower part now blocked.
Local climate
Garden House to the west of Highlow Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 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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