Derwent Dam is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Dam. 1 related planning application.
Derwent Dam
- WRENN ID
- upper-pedestal-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Dam
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 18 NE PARISH OF DERWENT DERWENT LANE 4/43
Derwent Dam II
Dam. 1902-16, Edward Sandeman, Engineer, W Flockhart architectural adviser. Coursed squared rock-faced gritstone. The core is of large stone blocks set in concrete. 1,110 feet long and 114 feet high. The base is 178 feet thick tapering to 10 feet at the top. Two castellated towers with arched corbel tables. Pairs of small round-arched windows to three sides, a door to the fourth side. Massive gateways at each end with battered sides and banded rock-faced rustication. Pseudo Gibbs-type entrance arches with huge vermiculated blocks and a solid pediment. Parapet walls linking gate piers to the towers with a dentil cornice to the south. Sources: The Builder, October 25 1912, pp 477-9.
Listing NGR: SK1721689813
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