Derwent Dam
DERWENT DAM, DERWENT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322820
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Derwent Dam
- Statutory Address:
- DERWENT DAM, DERWENT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322820
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Derwent Dam
- Statutory Address 1:
- DERWENT DAM, DERWENT LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in 25 October, (1912), 477-9
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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