Merrill House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Merrill House
- WRENN ID
- last-flint-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Merrill House, Main Road, Eyam, Derbyshire Dales, S32 5RE
- OS grid reference
- SK 214 767
- Coordinates
- 53.28716, -1.6798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merrill House is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of rendered stone with gritstone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building features a central stone ridge stack and a stone gable end stack on the east side.
The house is two storeys high and has two bays. The central entrance is marked by a chamfered quoined doorcase that contains a 20th-century door and a hoodmould that extends eastward over a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion window fitted with 19th-century sashes. To the west, there is a 20th-century 3-light casement window. On the upper floor, there are two recessed and chamfered 2-light mullion windows, each with wide hoodmoulds above. Inside, the house features a 17th-century wall cupboard.
Local climate
Merrill House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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