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
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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