The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-flagstone-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, Ilam, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 134 508
- Coordinates
- 53.05518, -1.80052
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a cottage built around 1855 by George Gilbert Scott. It is constructed from coursed and squared limestone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings. The attic storey is adorned with shaped and hung clay tiles, while the roof is shaped clay tiles with plain tile bands. There is an ashlar ridge stack located to the left of the center and an ashlar integral end stack. The design reflects a vernacular revival Swiss chalet style and has a two-room plan. The building is one storey with an attic and features a symmetrical arrangement of windows. The central porch is a one-and-a-half storey gabled structure with shaped and painted barge boards. The ground floor includes two-light chamfered mullioned windows with chamfered surrounds that contain casements. The three gabled dormer windows are single light casements, with the central one having a bracketed sill and the outer ones featuring shaped and painted barge boards. The doorway is a central convex shoulder-headed design. The Cottage is an important part of the picturesque estate village that Scott rebuilt in the 1850s.
Local climate
The Cottage 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 — 1 application
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