23 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
23 High Street
- WRENN ID
- quartered-passage-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 23 High Street, Melbourne, DE73 8GJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 384 251
- Coordinates
- 52.82233, -1.4302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century house on High Street in the parish of Melbourne. It is built of red brick with brick dressings and a plain tile roof, featuring a brick ridge stack and a brick gable stack to the north. The building has a dentilled eaves band. It is two storeys high and has two bays. An off-centre, segment-headed doorcase provides access, with a glazed panelled door and a 20th-century porch roof above. Flanking the doorcase are three-light, segment-headed casements with small panes of glass. Above, there are two flat-headed, three-light horizontal sliding sash windows with small panes.
Local climate
23 High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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