Russian Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Russian Cottage

WRENN ID
keen-vestry-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Russian Cottage, Calton Lees, Edensor, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 249 687
Coordinates
53.21506, -1.62795
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Russian Cottage is a cottage built in 1855, designed as a copy of a model of a Russian farm sent to the Duke of Devonshire by the Tsar. It features coursed squared sandstone and timber arranged to resemble logs laid horizontally. The cottage has a steeply pitched stone slate roof, which includes three ashlar stacks within the roof pitch and one ashlar ridge stack. It has a cruciform plan and is a single storey building. The north arm is constructed of stone, while the other arms are made of logs that cross at the angles.

All three gable ends are similar, showcasing elaborately fretted bargeboards that extend below the eaves line, along with a collar and a central pendant. There are a pair of white painted casement windows with panelled shutters, dentilled pediments, and decorative aprons. The logs are left with a natural finish, and the joinery is white painted. In the southeast angle, there is a lean-to porch with a balustrade and a plank door. The stone wing to the north features various casement windows and a plank door.

Local climate

Russian Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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