54 and 56 Main Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1967. Cottage.

54 and 56 Main Street

WRENN ID
dusted-mantel-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
54 and 56 Main Street, King's Newton, Melbourne
OS grid reference
SK 388 261
Coordinates
52.83178, -1.42447
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

54 and 56 Main Street is a pair of cottages that have been converted into a house. They date from the 15th, 16th, and 18th centuries, with an early 19th-century addition and early 20th-century alterations. The structure features a cruck frame and a square panel timber frame set on a stone plinth, with brick nogging and some painted brick. The roof is covered with early 20th-century red clay tiles and includes a brick side wall stack to the west, a large brick ridge stack, and another brick side wall stack on the central street elevation.

The building is single storey plus attics and consists of four bays, with the western bay being an early 19th-century addition. The south elevation has a long range extending at right angles to the east, with one bay of square panel timber framing at the north end. Adjacent to the west, there is a plank door with a small pane overlight in a single bay of timber framing. The western bays are constructed of red brick and feature a 20th-century door flanked to the west by a two-light casement window and to the east by a similar three-light window. Above, there are two gabled dormers with two-light casement windows.

On the street elevation, there is a brick bay to the west with a segment-headed glazing bar sash, while the timber-framed bays to the east are lower and have smaller panels than the other bays. A central brick lean-to includes a two-light small pane casement window on the west face and a 20th-century inserted window and panelled door to the west. To the east side of the lean-to, there is a plank door with a two-light small pane casement above in a gabled half dormer. Further east, there is a two-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sash. The east gable wall reveals an exposed cruck truss with a yoked ridge, the remains of two collars, and eaves sprockets on either side. This is the only surviving cruck truss in the building.

Local climate

54 and 56 Main Street 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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