Workshop to Rear of Number 28a is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Workshop.

Workshop to Rear of Number 28a

WRENN ID
calm-buttress-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1987
Type
Workshop
Address
Workshop to Rear of Number 28a, Market Place, Melbourne, DE73 8DS
OS grid reference
SK 385 251
Coordinates
52.82288, -1.42881
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a lace workshop located at the rear of No 28A in Melbourne, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof with a brick gable stack on the east side. The workshop is two storeys tall and has two bays, along with a single-storey addition to the south. The ground floor has two segment-headed doorcases, and above them are two large 2-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sashes. There are stone steps leading up to a first-floor plank door located on the east gable wall. The addition includes two segment-headed plank doors.

Local climate

Workshop to Rear of Number 28a 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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