Top Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1985. Cottages. 5 related planning applications.
Top Cottages
- WRENN ID
- hidden-kitchen-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1985
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Top Cottages, 59-62, Cressbrook Upper Lane, Litton, Derbyshire Dales, SK17 8SX
- OS grid reference
- SK 169 731
- Coordinates
- 53.25496, -1.74809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Cottages is a terrace of four mill-workers' cottages built around 1843, likely by the architects Weightman & Hadfield. The cottages are constructed from coursed squared limestone with gritstone dressings and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof that features a central group of four stone ridge stacks and two additional ridge stacks. They are single storey with an attic storey and have a symmetrical four-bay south elevation.
On the left side, there is a doorway with a stone bracketed hood, followed by a three-light chamfered mullion window with a dripmould. To the right of this window is a similar doorway and window. The two bays on the right mirror the two on the left. Above, there are four two-light dormer windows with wooden bargeboards and finials, and most of the windows retain their original diamond lights.
These cottages are part of the mill settlement built to serve Cressbrook Mill and are arranged in a symmetrical composition with Nos 63 - 65 and Nos 66 - 69 Top Cottages.
Local climate
Top 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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