Ye Olde Packhorse Inn is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Public house. 5 related planning applications.

Ye Olde Packhorse Inn

WRENN ID
inner-cornice-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1987
Type
Public house
Address
Ye Olde Packhorse Inn, Pack Horse Road, Melbourne, DE73 8BZ
OS grid reference
SK 385 261
Coordinates
52.8316, -1.42892
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Ye Olde Packhorse Inn is a public house, originally two cottages, dating to 1727 with early 19th-century additions. The building is constructed of red brick with brick and stone dressings, and has red clay tile roofs with brick coped gables at both ends and in the centre, plus a central brick ridge stack and an external gable brick stack to the south. A dentilled eaves band runs along the early 19th-century section to the north, and a first-floor band is present on the early 18th-century section to the south. The building has a canted plan, with four bays and a single storey with attics to the south and two storeys to the north.

The east-facing elevation has two two-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sashes to the north, with the southern window beneath a segmental head. An inserted 20th-century door is positioned below a simple overlight on the south side. A canted brick bay window is located to the south, alongside a glazing bar sash and a stone doorcase to the north. The bay window features plain sashes beneath stone lintels, while the northern doorcase has chamfered jambs and bears the inscription 'WM 1727' on the lintel. Above, two horizontal sliding glazing bar sashes are set within gabled dormers, and to the north there are two similarly styled flat-headed windows below the eaves.

The interior includes chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

Ye Olde Packhorse Inn 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
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