43 and 45 Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1971. Cottages.

43 and 45 Castle Street

WRENN ID
shifting-tin-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1971
Type
Cottages
Address
43 and 45 Castle Street, Melbourne
OS grid reference
SK 388 251
Coordinates
52.82272, -1.42518
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 43 and 45 Castle Street are a pair of cottages, now functioning as shops, dating from the mid 18th century with 20th-century alterations. They are constructed from coursed squared stone with stone dressings and feature a plain tile roof that has a large central ridge stack and a chamfered eaves band. Each cottage consists of a single bay and stands two storeys tall.

No 43 has a plain doorcase with a corniced keystone and a 20th-century glazed door on the south side, along with a three-light horizontal sliding plain sash window on the north side, which also has a corniced keystone. Above this window is a similar window without a keystone.

No 45 mirrors No 43 in design, but the positions of the door and windows are reversed.

Inside both cottages, the front rooms feature large chamfered beams and bracketed stone fireplaces.

Local climate

43 and 45 Castle Street 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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