Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Thatched Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-quoin-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Thatched Cottage, Castle Street, Melbourne, DE73 8DY
- OS grid reference
- SK 388 252
- Coordinates
- 52.82297, -1.42539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatched Cottage is a late 16th century building that has been converted from three cottages into one. It features square panel timber framing set on a stone plinth, with painted brick nogging and corner braces on the upper panels, and parts of it have been rebuilt in red brick. The roof is thatched and includes a gable brick stack on the east side and one brick ridge stack.
The cottage is a single storey plus attics and consists of six bays. The three eastern bays retain a significant amount of original timber framing, while the western bays have been rebuilt. The easternmost bay has a segment-headed doorcase with a plank door on the west side and a two-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sash window on the east side. There are two similar three-light windows to the west of the door, followed by another segment-headed plank door, a three-light casement window with a similar head, and 20th-century garage doors. These openings are topped with a dentilled eaves band. The westernmost bay has a raised brick ground floor with a central segment-headed two-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sash. Above this, there is an elongated eyebrow dormer featuring two two-light windows, with a sliding sash on the west side and a casement on the east side. Further east, there are four additional eyebrow dormers, each with small paned two-light casements.
Local climate
Thatched Cottage 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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