Old Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Derby local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- lost-porch-linden
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Derby
- Constituency
- Derby North MP: Catherine Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Hall, 5, Orchard Street, City of Derby, DE3 0DF
- OS grid reference
- SK 305 340
- Coordinates
- 52.90281, -1.54758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall is a notable building dated 1648, featuring square-panelled timber framing with red brick nogging. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has three light 19th-century stone mullioned windows that include cast iron lattice lights, set above a stone plinth. The front of the building has a central two-storey porch that oversails on the upper floor, with splat balusters on the open sides. The bressummer above the porch is inscribed with "NISI DEUS FRUSTRA 1648," which reflects the sentiment from the psalm, "Unless the Lord build the house they labour in vain who build it." There are no windows to the left of the porch, while one window is present on each floor to the right. The roof is tiled, and the other elevations maintain a similar character. This interesting house was once known as The Cedars and is said to have been built by a Captain in Cromwell's army.
Local climate
Old Hall receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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