Boat House at Tithe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. Boathouse.
Boat House at Tithe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-arch-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- Boathouse
- Address
- Boat House at Tithe Cottage, Church Close, Melbourne
- OS grid reference
- SK 389 249
- Coordinates
- 52.82057, -1.42396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boat House at Tithe Cottage is a building dating from around 1840. It is constructed of ashlar with stone dressings and features a long red clay tile roof with moulded stone coped gables. The boat house is a single storey and single bay structure. The north elevation includes a segment-headed doorcase with a returned hoodmould and a plank door, while the south elevation has a wide pointed arch, also with a returned hoodmould. Inside, there is one sawn timber king post truss. This building is included in the register for its group value only.
Local climate
Boat House at Tithe Cottage 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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