Tea Rooms to North of Melbourne Hall and Attached Walls is a Grade I listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1967. A Post-medieval Tea room. 1 related planning application.

Tea Rooms to North of Melbourne Hall and Attached Walls

WRENN ID
ruined-wattle-sable
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1967
Type
Tea room
Period
Post-medieval
Address
Tea Rooms to North of Melbourne Hall and Attached Walls, Church Close, DE73 8EN
OS grid reference
SK 389 250
Coordinates
52.82172, -1.42278
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building known as the Tea Rooms, located to the north of Melbourne Hall, was originally a laundry and dates from the early 18th century, with a 19th-century addition and some minor later alterations. It was likely constructed by William Cooke of Walcot for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall, coinciding with the garden's remodelling by Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise. The structure is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings, quoins, and a wide first-floor band. It features a steeply pitched plain tile roof with brick gable stacks and stone-coped gables on plain kneelers.

The tea rooms have two storeys and seven bays, along with a single-storey addition to the east. The ground floor includes five small paned timber cross windows set in raised plain surrounds with raised keystones, and two doorcases with similar surrounds, one located between the eastern two windows and the other between the western two windows. Both doorcases feature 20th-century glazed doors and small pane overlights. The first-floor band above the ground floor lintels is slightly raised over each keystone and the corners of each opening. The first floor has seven similar cross windows, three of which are blocked but retain their timber mullions and transoms. In the centre, there is a cement circle inscribed with the date '1710'.

The interior is quite simple, featuring inglenooks at either end of the ground floor room. Attached to the east side is a 19th-century single-storey cowshed that has been partly incorporated into the tea rooms. Flanking walls are present on either side of the 18th-century building; the wall to the west is late 18th-century and made of red brick, while the wall to the east is likely early 18th-century and constructed of stone rubble. Both walls have plain stone copings.

Local climate

Tea Rooms to North of Melbourne Hall and Attached Walls 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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