Rookery Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. Cottage.
Rookery Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-spindle-thunder
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Rookery Cottage, Buxton Road, Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 192 696
- Coordinates
- 53.22388, -1.71335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rookery Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed from coursed limestone rubble with gritstone dressings. It features a stone slate roof at the front and a slate roof at the rear, along with short stone gable end stacks. The gable on the west side is stone coped and has a moulded kneeler. The cottage is two storeys high with a double pile plan and consists of three bays.
The central bay is advanced and full height, featuring a canted bay with a pyramidal roof and a central segmental headed doorcase that includes a plank door. To the east, there was originally a 3-light flush mullion window, which has been replaced with horizontal sliding sashes. The west side has a 2-light flush mullion window fitted with 20th-century leaded lights. There is also a plank door in a flush surround on this side.
On the upper floor, there are two 2-light flush mullion windows with original leaded lights, positioned on either side of the bay window. The bay has glazing bar sashes on three sides and a plain sill band. At the rear, there is a blocked 2-light mullion and transomed stair window, along with various other 2-light flush mullion windows.
Local climate
Rookery Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
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