Taxus Hill and Attached Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. House.
Taxus Hill and Attached Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-zinc-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Taxus Hill and Attached Garden Walls, Greaves Lane, Ashford in the Water, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 196 699
- Coordinates
- 53.22641, -1.7069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Taxus Hill is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is built of coursed limestone with gritstone dressings and quoins, topped with a stone slate roof. The house features stone coped gables with plain kneelers and stone gable end stacks with plain bands. There is a plain eaves band. The building has two storeys, with a lower two-storey section to the west. It has three bays, with a two-bay section to the west. The central doorcase has a stepped architrave, a plain lintel, and a moulded cornice. On either side of the door, there are glazing bar sashes in plain surrounds. Above, there are three similar windows. To the west, there are two additional similar windows on the ground floor and a single similar sash above. An attached limestone rubble wall to the west has slab gritstone copings and continues around the front of the house.
Local climate
Taxus Hill and Attached Garden Walls 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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