Watergrove Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1967. House.
Watergrove Cottages
- WRENN ID
- standing-entrance-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Watergrove Cottages, Chapel Road, Foolow, Derbyshire Dales
- OS grid reference
- SK 189 758
- Coordinates
- 53.2789, -1.71737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watergrove Cottages is a pair of small houses, now converted into one house, dating from around 1830 and converted in about 1980. The structure is made of coursed squared limestone with rock-faced gritstone dressings and quoins. It features a stone-bracketed eaves gutter beneath a hipped 20th-century concrete tile roof, with rock-faced stone ridge end stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. There are three 20th-century two-pane windows in original rock-faced surrounds on the ground floor, with three similar windows above. Each end wall has small pointed windows with Gothic tracery tops. On the north side of each end wall, there are single-storey porches with 20th-century doors. The cottages were likely built as houses for the engineer and foreman of the Watergrove mine. They are included in the register for their group value only.
Local climate
Watergrove 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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