Vale House is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. A C19 House. 8 related planning applications.
Vale House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-chapel-flax
- 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
- Vale House, Penn Lane, Melbourne, DE73 8EP
- OS grid reference
- SK 388 250
- Coordinates
- 52.82132, -1.42519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vale House is an early 19th-century house with a mid-19th-century porch. It is constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings and has a steeply pitched plain tile roof with brick gable stacks, along with a dentilled eaves band. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. A mid-19th-century brick porch is centrally positioned, featuring clasping pilasters to the corners and a stone entablature above, finished with a blocking course. The porch has a panelled door below a divided overlight facing the front. To either side are glazing bar sashes beneath rusticated wedge lintels with double keystones. Above are three matching windows, the central one narrower than the others and with a single keystone.
Local climate
Vale House 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 — 8 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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