Pennfield House and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1970. House, factory. 3 related planning applications.

Pennfield House and Attached Outbuildings

WRENN ID
nether-shingle-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 June 1970
Type
House, factory
Address
Pennfield House and Attached Outbuildings, Penn Lane, Melbourne
OS grid reference
SK 386 250
Coordinates
52.82139, -1.42825
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pennfield House and attached outbuildings are a house and former lace factory dating from the late 18th century and the early 19th century. The house is constructed of red brick on a stone plinth, with gauged brick dressings to the south front and painted stone dressings to the north front. It has a hipped slate roof with brick side wall stacks and dentilled eaves. The main part of the house is three storeys and three bays, with a three-storey, five-bay outbuilding attached to the east.

The south front has a central doorcase with double doors, a surrounding light, and an elegant, traceried fanlight, all sheltered by an iron Gothick porch with four-centred arches, a castellated top, and pierced panels. Flanking the door are full-height glazing bar sash windows with flat brick arches. Above these are three smaller, similar sash windows, and above again there are three further small sash windows. The top floor was added in the early 19th century.

The north street elevation features a central flush-panelled door within a moulded doorcase with fluted jambs and a projecting hood. Flanking this are glazing-bar sash windows, each beneath rusticated wedge lintels with double keystones. Above these are three similar, narrower sashes, and above again there are three smaller sashes.

Attached to the east is an early 19th century lace factory, also of red brick with a plain tile roof, brick coped gables, brick gable stacks, and a sawtooth eaves band. The north elevation of the factory has a rendered ground floor with 20th-century sliding plank doors in the center, a plank door to the west, and a small, segment-headed window to the east. Above are five segment-headed, three-light windows with small panes and casements, and above again are five similar windows. A small early 19th century wing connects the factory to the house, featuring a segment-headed panelled door to the east at ground floor level, and two small-paned, segment-headed casement windows above.

Inside the house, a stick baluster staircase has column newels, and there are early 19th century reeded door surrounds with carved bosses to the top corners.

Local climate

Pennfield House and Attached 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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