6 and 8, Melbourne Place BD5 is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1983. Villa.
6 and 8, Melbourne Place BD5
- WRENN ID
- turning-fireplace-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1983
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 6 and 8, Melbourne Place BD5, Trident
- OS grid reference
- SE 158 325
- Coordinates
- 53.78858, -1.76042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 6 and 8 Melbourne Place, built around 1840, were originally constructed as a large villa before being subdivided. This two-storey building is made of sandstone ashlar and features a long five-bay front with a very shallow central break that includes three windows. The hipped slate roof is complemented by corniced chimneys. Architectural details include quoin pilasters, a frieze, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course that projects forward over the pilasters and the central break, with the blocking course slightly heightened in these areas.
A sill band on the first floor integrates with the quoin pilasters, and the revealed sashes have quoins extending down to the sill band on the first floor. The central first-floor window is distinguished by a blind with an eared architrave surround. On the ground floor, the outer windows are tripartite, flanked by Tuscan pilasters and capped with shallow leaf moulded consoles, featuring deep entablatures with projecting cornices. The central entrance is marked by a four-panel door and a rectangular marginal glazed fanlight, flanked by Tuscan pilasters and topped with an entablature that has a projecting cornice and blocking course. There are later side entrances. Nos 6 and 8 likely date from the late 1830s when they were originally one house.
Local climate
6 and 8, Melbourne Place BD5 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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