Dovedale House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Dovedale House
- WRENN ID
- mired-step-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Dovedale House, Ilam, Staffordshire Moorlands, DE6 2AZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 133 508
- Coordinates
- 53.05478, -1.80217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dovedale House, originally known as "The Vicarage," is a residential centre built around 1840 in the Tudor Gothic style. The building features ashlar stonework and a slate roof with coped verges, along with ashlar stacks that have a diamond section.
On the east elevation, the house has two storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical arrangement of windows consisting of three sections. There is a central projecting gabled porch that includes a first-floor oriel window and an attic light above. The windows are mullioned with returned hood moulds and contain glazing bar casements. The porch has a central 4-centred arch with sunken spandrels.
The south elevation also has two storeys and an attic, featuring three mullioned windows with returned hood moulds that contain casements. To the right, there is a ground floor bay window, a large attic gable, and a gabled dormer on the left.
Local climate
Dovedale House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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