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
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Dam
- Address
- Derwent Dam, Derwent Lane, Hope Woodlands, High Peak
- OS grid reference
- SK 172 898
- Coordinates
- 53.40488, -1.74252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Derwent Dam is a dam constructed between 1902 and 1916, designed by engineer Edward Sandeman with architectural advice from W. Flockhart. It is made of coursed squared rock-faced gritstone, with a core of large stone blocks set in concrete. The dam measures 1,110 feet long and stands 114 feet high, with a base thickness of 178 feet that tapers to 10 feet at the top. It features two castellated towers with arched corbel tables, small round-arched windows on three sides, and a door on the fourth side. There are massive gateways at each end, which have battered sides and banded rock-faced rustication. The entrance arches are of a pseudo Gibbs-type, adorned with large vermiculated blocks and a solid pediment. Parapet walls connect the gate piers to the towers and include a dentil cornice on the south side.
Local climate
Derwent Dam sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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