Top Lodge and Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1985. Lodge. 1 related planning application.

Top Lodge and Garden Wall

WRENN ID
white-marble-marsh
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
Lodge
Address
Top Lodge and Garden Wall, Cressbrook Lower Lane, Litton, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 170 730
Coordinates
53.25414, -1.74579
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Top Lodge is a lodge for Cressbrook Hall, built in 1843 by Weightman & Hadfield. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with gritstone dressings and features vermiculated quoins. The roof is made of chamfered fishscale Welsh slate, and the stone coped gables have moulded kneelers and ball finials. The lodge is designed in a Tudor style and is a single storey plus attic. The north-west elevation has a gabled front with a canted bay window and a two-light chamfered mullion window above. There is a doorway to the right in the return wall. The north-east elevation includes an outshut on the left and a two-light chamfered mullion window on the right. There is a 20th-century single storey wing to the west that is not of special interest. Additionally, there is a low curving garden wall on the north-east side, which is chamfered and topped with a rustic style timber fence.

Local climate

Top Lodge and Garden Wall 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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