The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-stronghold-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Ballidon Lane, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 202 548
- Coordinates
- 53.09044, -1.6992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been converted into one dwelling, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed from coursed rubble limestone with sandstone dressings and features a plain tile roof with a brick ridge stack and a gable end stack.
The building is two storeys high. On the south elevation, from right to left, there is a 2-light square section flush mullion window with casement lights, and a similar window located above it. There is a blocked doorway with a lintel, and next to it, a doorway with a lintel that has a 20th-century glazed door. To the left, there is a 3-light chamfered mullion window, and further left, a window with a dressed stone surround and a sliding Yorkshire sash. Above, there are two irregularly placed windows, both with dressed stone surrounds and Yorkshire sliding sashes.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 920 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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