Derwent Dam

DERWENT DAM, DERWENT LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1322820
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1984
Statutory Address:
DERWENT DAM, DERWENT LANE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1322820
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1984
Statutory Address 1:
DERWENT DAM, DERWENT LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
DERWENT DAM, DERWENT LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Derbyshire
District:
High Peak (District Authority)
Parish:
Derwent
County:
Derbyshire
District:
High Peak (District Authority)
Parish:
Hope Woodlands
National Park:
Peak District
National Grid Reference:
SK1721689813

Details

SK 18 NE PARISH OF DERWENT DERWENT LANE
4/43

Derwent Dam
II


Dam. 1902-16, Edward Sandeman, Engineer, W Flockhart architectural adviser.
Coursed squared rock-faced gritstone. The core is of large stone blocks set in
concrete. 1,110 feet long and 114 feet high. The base is 178 feet thick
tapering to 10 feet at the top. Two castellated towers with arched corbel
tables. Pairs of small round-arched windows to three sides, a door to the fourth
side. Massive gateways at each end with battered sides and banded rock-faced
rustication. Pseudo Gibbs-type entrance arches with huge vermiculated blocks
and a solid pediment. Parapet walls linking gate piers to the towers with a
dentil cornice to the south. Sources: The Builder, October 25 1912, pp 477-9.


Listing NGR: SK1721689813

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The Builder in 25 October, (1912), 477-9

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