Valve Station to the West of Bleak House is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1984. Valve station.
Valve Station to the West of Bleak House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-timber-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1984
- Type
- Valve station
- OS grid reference
- SK 080 994
- Coordinates
- 53.4918, -1.88069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The valve station, built around 1880, is located to the west of Bleak House on Woodhead Road in Tintwistle. It is constructed from coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings and features a pyramidal stone slate roof designed to resemble lead. The building is single storey and has angle quoins along with heavily bracketed eaves. The doorway and windows are adorned with rusticated jambs and triangular headed lintels, and they include geometrical, star-shaped glazing bars. Inside, there is cast iron valve gear from around 1880. The valve station is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Valve Station to the West of Bleak House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
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