Pool House and Attached Garden Railings is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. House, old people's home. 2 related planning applications.
Pool House and Attached Garden Railings
- WRENN ID
- high-vestry-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- House, old people's home
- Address
- Pool House and Attached Garden Railings, Pool Road, Melbourne, DE73 8AA
- OS grid reference
- SK 390 248
- Coordinates
- 52.81939, -1.42147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pool House and attached garden railings, now serving as an old people's home, were built in 1838 in a Tudor style, with a 20th-century addition. The front is made of tooled ashlar, while the gable walls are constructed of red brick with stone dressings. The slate roof features pierced bargeboards at the gables, topped with steeple finials, and there are two rear wall stacks with rendered, twin diamond set pots. The building is two storeys high and has three gabled bays.
The central entrance features a moulded four-centred arched doorcase with incised spandrels, a returned hoodmould, and a studded wooden door. On either side of the entrance are 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows with returned hoods. Above the entrance, there is an oriel window supported by moulded brackets, with a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion window in the front and similar single lights on the sides, all topped with a moulded cornice and a lapped stone roof. Beneath the gables, the stonework slightly projects over a moulded band, and there are additional 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows with returned hoods. Each gable features a slit window above. The east gable wall has similar windows both above and below, and all windows are fitted with lozenge pattern metal glazing.
The 20th-century addition at the rear is not of interest. The garden railings to the east and north are adorned with elaborate fleur de lys finials, scrolled brackets supporting the main posts, and stone piers at the corners, which have moulded cornices and pyramidal copings.
Local climate
Pool House and Attached Garden Railings 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 — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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