The 1781 Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1985. Cottage.

The 1781 Cottages

WRENN ID
fossil-passage-plum
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
Cottage
Address
The 1781 Cottages, Besom Lane, Hathersage, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 231 815
Coordinates
53.33066, -1.6541
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The 1781 Cottages are a former workshop that has been converted into a row of cottages, dated 1781. They are constructed from coursed rubble gritstone and feature plain gables, with intermediate and end stone ridge stacks and a stone slated roof. The building is two storeys high with attics and consists of three bays. It has 3- and 3-light casements, some of which are 20th century, all with glazing bars, set beneath rough, flat arches without keyblocks. There are blocked openings on the first and attic floors on the southwest part and the southwest gable. The cottages have three doorways with plain planked doors. Additionally, offshoots have been added to the rear elevations, which include heavy chamfered stone surrounds to 1- and 2-light windows.

Local climate

The 1781 Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 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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