Rock House, Attached Outbuilding Entrance, Gate Piers and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1985. A N/A House, outbuilding, gate piers, gates. 3 related planning applications.
Rock House, Attached Outbuilding Entrance, Gate Piers and Gates
- WRENN ID
- lesser-thatch-auburn
- 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
- House, outbuilding, gate piers, gates
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- Rock House, Attached Outbuilding Entrance, Gate Piers and Gates, School Lane, Hathersage, Derbyshire Dales, S32 1AJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 234 817
- Coordinates
- 53.3324, -1.64922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House, along with its attached outbuilding entrance, gate piers, and gates, dates from around 1830. The building is constructed from coursed squared gritstone, featuring rock-faced rustication on the quoins and dressings. It has moulded copings on the southwest gable and stone stacks with coupled octagonal chimneys, although the chimneys at the southwest end have been removed. The house is two storeys tall and comprises five bays, with 2 and 3-light windows set within Gibbsian surrounds made of massive rock-faced masonry. The ground floor window at the northeast end has been replaced with double glazed doors. Keyblocks above the 3-light windows at the southwest end connect with bands above them. The off-centre doorway features a rock-faced Gibbsian surround and a six-panelled door topped with a rectangular overlight of four panes.
The outbuilding at the southwest end has a parapet that supports crenellations and pinnacles, which likely originated from the parish church. The entrance gate piers are square in plan and have depressed pyramidal caps, all made from heavily rusticated masonry. The ornamental cast iron gates feature spear-headed rails in the upper part and diamond lattice work below, with a pedestrian gate located at the centre.
Local climate
Rock House, Attached Outbuilding Entrance, Gate Piers and Gates receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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