21, Blanch Croft is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. A Early 19th century House. 4 related planning applications.
21, Blanch Croft
- WRENN ID
- moated-rampart-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Address
- 21, Blanch Croft, Melbourne, DE73 8GG
- OS grid reference
- SK 385 252
- Coordinates
- 52.82368, -1.42962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
21 Blanch Croft is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with some stone dressings and features a plain tile roof with a brick gable stack on the north side, along with a dentilled eaves band. The building has two storeys and two bays.
The entrance is marked by an off-centre doorcase that includes a moulded architrave, a flush panelled door, and a bracketed porch roof. The porch has a deep lintel adorned with three blind cusped roundels. On the south side of the door is an ogee headed stone bootscraper. To the north, there is a segment headed 2-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sash, while to the south, there is a similar 3-light window with a stone quoined doorcase leading into an alley that runs through the building. Above, there are two flat headed 2-light 20th-century glazing bar casements.
Local climate
21, Blanch Croft 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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