Dove Cottage Manifold Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1985. Cottage.
Dove Cottage Manifold Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-tallow-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dove Cottage Manifold Cottage, Ilam, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 134 508
- Coordinates
- 53.05518, -1.8003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dove Cottage and Manifold Cottage are a pair of cottages built around 1855 by George Gilbert Scott. They are constructed from coursed and squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, featuring shaped and hung clay tiles on the attic storey and a shaped clay tile roof with plain tile bands, along with ashlar ridge stacks. The cottages display a vernacular revival and Swiss chalet style and are arranged in a T-shape plan, consisting of one storey and an attic.
Dove Cottage is located on the right and has a projecting gable end, while Manifold Cottage is on the left. Dove Cottage features a symmetrical facade with three windows on the ground floor, a central 1½ storey porch adorned with rustic and painted barge boards, and ground floor windows that are 2-light chamfered mullioned with chamfered surrounds containing casements. The three gabled dormer windows above are single light casements, with the central one having a bracketed sill and the outer ones featuring shaped and painted barge boards. The central doorway has a convex shoulder head. The gable end to the right includes a 3-light ground floor bay window with casements.
Manifold Cottage has a central 3-light ground floor bay window with casements and a three-sided roof, along with shaped barge boards. Its return wall features one single light casement on the ground floor and a gabled dormer with shaped and painted barge boards. These cottages are an important part of the picturesque estate village that Scott rebuilt in the 1850s.
Local climate
Dove Cottage Manifold Cottage receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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