Dower House Cottage and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1971. Cottage, outbuilding. 1 related planning application.

Dower House Cottage and Attached Outbuildings

WRENN ID
mired-joist-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1971
Type
Cottage, outbuilding
Address
Dower House Cottage and Attached Outbuildings, Penn Lane, Melbourne, DE73 8EP
OS grid reference
SK 388 250
Coordinates
52.82117, -1.42523
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dower House Cottage and its attached outbuildings date from the 17th century, with later alterations and mid-19th century additions. The cottage is constructed of rubble stone with flush quoins, while the outbuildings include a red brick addition. The roof is steeply pitched, covered in red clay tiles with a brick ridge stack on the house, and blue tiles with a dentilled eaves band on the outbuildings.

The cottage is a single storey plus attics and features three bays: two to the north made of stone rubble and one to the south of red brick. The 20th-century glazed door is flanked by leaded 2-light casements, and there is an iron casement window below a plain stone lintel to the south. Above, three raking dormers contain 2-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sashes, with the northern dormer having brick infill from an earlier window below.

To the south, the mid-19th century single storey outbuilding has a segment-headed doorcase with a plank door, a single light metal window, and three small adjoining glazing bar sashes beneath a plain stone lintel to the south.

Local climate

Dower House Cottage and Attached Outbuildings 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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