Melling House is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. House.
Melling House
- WRENN ID
- grey-minaret-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Melling House, Prescot Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 402 003
- Coordinates
- 53.49652, -2.90233
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melling House is a house that is currently used for farm storage. It is said to have a datestone from 1654, which is now covered with ivy, but it may date back to the 16th century. The building is constructed of stone with a stone slate roof and brick stacks. It has two storeys and four bays, with a projecting end bay on both facades. Some of the gables are coped.
On the north facade, the first bay features a gable and a horizontally sliding sash window. There is an inserted entrance and another horizontally sliding sash window to the right. The projecting end bay has double-chamfered mullioned windows with label moulds on both floors; the left return has a cross window and a lateral stack, while the right return has a lean-to porch.
The south facade is mostly covered in ivy and features double-chamfered mullioned windows and horizontally sliding sashes. There is a blocked entrance next to the projecting bay that has a small porch, along with a lateral stack. The returns have gable-end stacks.
Inside, some timber-framed cross walls are visible at the first-floor level, along with some upright timbers. There is a 20th-century open-fronted shed attached to the north facade. Additionally, there is a one-storey extension at the west gable end that connects this building to an outbuilding.
Local climate
Melling House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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