Whim Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1985. Lodge.
Whim Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-clay-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1985
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Whim Cottage, Sheffield Road, Hathersage, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 242 806
- Coordinates
- 53.3223, -1.63722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whim Cottage is a lodge dated 1844, constructed from regularly coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings and quoins. It features plain eaves, a single ashlar end ridge stack with a moulded cap, and a stone slated roof. The building has a stepped range of two bays, with the lower range to the northeast set back from the taller range. The taller range includes 2-light chamfer mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and stops on the southwest and southeast elevations. The lower range has a doorway with a moulded Tudor arch and a plain planked door, all enclosed by a lean-to porch that has glazing bars on the windows. The southwest gable displays a dated oval plaque at the apex, beneath a hoodmould.
Local climate
Whim Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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