Top Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Top Cottages
- WRENN ID
- blind-eave-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Top Cottages, 63-65, Cressbrook Upper Lane, Litton, Derbyshire Dales, SK17 8SX
- OS grid reference
- SK 169 731
- Coordinates
- 53.25496, -1.74764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Cottages is a terrace of three mill-workers' cottages built around 1843, likely by the architects Weightman & Hadfield. The cottages are constructed from coursed squared limestone with gritstone dressings and quoins, topped with Welsh slate roofs featuring wooden bargeboards and finials. They have two storeys and are characterized by two large, paired chimney stacks that rise from the roof pitch.
The south elevation displays three gabled bays, with the center bay being taller and projecting. The ground floor of the center bay features a three-light chamfered mullion window with a dripmould and diamond lights. On the first floor, there is a similar two-light window, and in the gable, a single light window with 20th-century glazing. The right-hand bay has two 20th-century windows with chamfered stone surrounds and dripmoulds, while the left-hand bay includes a two-light chamfered mullion window with a dripmould and a single light window with a dripmould above it.
These cottages are part of the mill settlement built to serve Cressbrook Mill and are arranged symmetrically with Nos 59 - 62 and Nos 66 - 69 Top Cottages. They are listed for their group value.
Local climate
Top Cottages 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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