Crofton House is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Crofton House
- WRENN ID
- blind-thatch-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crofton House, 1, Trent Lane, Melbourne, DE73 8BT
- OS grid reference
- SK 390 262
- Coordinates
- 52.83226, -1.42168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crofton House is a house built in the late 18th century and early 19th century, with some minor later alterations. It is constructed of red brick with painted stone dressings and features a slate roof, which has a brick ridge stack and a brick gable stack on the north side. The house has a dentilled eaves band and is two storeys high with garrets, comprising three bays, with the southern bay being older than the other two.
The central entrance has a pilastered doorcase with a triglyphed frieze and a modillioned cornice, leading to a panelled door beneath a traceried overlight. On either side of the entrance are glazing bar sashes set below rusticated wedge lintels, with the southern window positioned lower than the others. Above the entrance, there are three similar windows, also beneath rusticated wedge lintels, with the southern window again lower than the others. The garrets feature horizontal sliding sashes in the gable walls.
Local climate
Crofton House 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 2021
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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