Top House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1987. House.
Top House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-gutter-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Top House, Main Road, Pilsley, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 241 709
- Coordinates
- 53.23495, -1.63975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top House is a house built around 1838-1840, likely designed by Joseph Paxton for the Devonshire estate. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and features an overhanging Welsh slate roof adorned with decorative wooden bargeboards. The house has paired diamond ashlar gable stacks and is laid out in a T-plan over two storeys.
The south elevation consists of two plus one bays, with a symmetrical two-bay section that has angle quoins. At the center, there is a gabled porch featuring decorative bargeboards and a finial. The porch includes a segmental pointed arched doorway with a slight chamfer and a pair of half-glazed doors. This doorway is flanked by 2-light casement windows that are deeply set in plain ashlar surrounds, with arched lights above the casements. Above, there are two similar windows located in gabled half dormers, also with decorative bargeboards. The lower wing to the right has a similar 4-light window, and the rear wing exhibits similar fenestration.
Local climate
Top House receives an average of 930 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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