House of Confinement is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1966. Parish lock-up.
House of Confinement
- WRENN ID
- scattered-tower-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley MP: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1966
- Type
- Parish lock-up
- Address
- House of Confinement, King Street, Alfreton
- OS grid reference
- SK 408 553
- Coordinates
- 53.09423, -1.39183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The House of Confinement is a parish lock-up built in the mid-18th century. It is constructed from ashlar stone and features a shallow pitched roof made of large stone slabs, topped with a stone slab ridge stack. The building is single storey and consists of two bays. The gabled street elevation has a central semicircular headed doorcase with a wide raised surround, a raised keystone, and a studded wooden door. Above the doorcase is a raised plaque inscribed with the words 'House of Confinement'. On either side of the door, there are circular openings with raised plain surrounds. Inside, the layout includes a central corridor with cells on either side. This building is an unusually large example of a village lock-up.
Local climate
House of Confinement receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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