Holly House the Beeches is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. Manor house.

Holly House the Beeches

WRENN ID
white-outpost-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1967
Type
Manor house
Address
Holly House the Beeches, Bakewell Road, Rowsley, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 255 658
Coordinates
53.18903, -1.61941
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holly House and The Beeches is a manor house that has been converted into a pair of houses, dating from the 17th century and early 18th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and quoins, topped with a stone slate roof featuring coped gables. It has a massive ashlar ridge stack and a gable stack. The structure is two storeys tall with attics, forming an L-plan.

The south elevation consists of three irregular bays. Holly House, on the left, represents the 17th-century portion of the building. It features a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion window on both the ground and first floors, along with a small single light window with a recessed and chamfered surround at first floor level. There is a similar blind window above this. To the right, there is a larger 2-light chamfered mullion window on the ground floor and a larger 2-light window above, which has a square section flush surround. Additionally, there are two 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows in gabled dormers above. The masonry to the right is more regularly coursed, and there is a doorway with a massive ashlar lintel and jambs, inscribed with "S 1710."

The Beeches, on the right, has 18th-century 2-light square section flush mullion windows on each floor. The west gable end features a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullioned window on each floor and a blocked single light window to the right of the top one. The lower wing at the rear has two 2-light square section flush mullion windows on the ground floor and two smaller windows above.

Inside, there is an early 18th-century closed string dogleg staircase with turned balusters and a heavy moulded handrail. Names have been cut into the glass of the window on the first floor landing at various dates.

Local climate

Holly House the Beeches 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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