Kings Newton House and Attached Gates and Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.

Kings Newton House and Attached Gates and Outbuildings

WRENN ID
tall-pediment-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1987
Type
House
Address
Kings Newton House and Attached Gates and Outbuildings, Main Street, Melbourne, DE73 8BX
OS grid reference
SK 390 262
Coordinates
52.83198, -1.42196
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

King’s Newton House is a 17th-century house that was altered and extended in the early 19th century, with minor later alterations. It is constructed of rendered stone with a deep stone plinth and a hipped slate roof featuring wide eaves, rendered side wall stacks, and a large rendered ridge stack. The house is three storeys and originally three bays, with a large rear addition. The main elevation has a central early 19th-century bow window with 20th-century casements. Flanking this are glazing bar sashes, the one to the east slightly larger than the other. Below the western sash is a blocked 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion basement window, and between this and the central bow, there is a dip in the plinth and the shadowy evidence of a pedimented doorcase. Above, there are three glazing bar sashes and, above again, three similar smaller windows. A line in the render at sill level suggests this storey was added in the early 19th century.

The east side of the house features an early 19th-century semi-circular headed doorcase with a panelled door, traceried fanlight, and a long barrel vaulted porch roof above. The rear elevation has a long two-storey addition to the west, with 3-light casements to the ground floor and glazing bar sashes above. The east side of this rear addition incorporates a range of early 19th-century outbuildings with semi-circular headed doors. One part of these outbuildings contains a working cheese press, and the other a bread oven and soft water pump. Attached to the east side of these outbuildings is an attractive brick wall with a wide, depressed segmental gauged brick arch. An attached rendered curved stone wall extends to the east side of the house, incorporating a pair of large gate piers with stipled bases, tooled rustication, and pyramidal coping stones.

Inside, a late 17th-century dogleg staircase has turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and ball finials to the newel posts. The ground floor has an early 19th-century character, including reeded cornices, semi-circular headed doorcases with flush doors, and Hopton Wood marble paving in the hall. One 18th-century fireplace is present in one of the bedrooms, and there is a tiny winder staircase to the south side of the large stack.

Local climate

Kings Newton House and Attached Gates and Outbuildings 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 — 1 transaction since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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