40, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. House.
40, High Street
- WRENN ID
- crooked-copper-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 40, High Street, Melbourne
- OS grid reference
- SK 385 251
- Coordinates
- 52.82268, -1.42991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 40 High Street is a house dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof that is hipped on the left side. The building has a chimney on the right-hand gable and another at the left of the ridge. The facade is symmetrical, consisting of three storeys and three bays, and is adorned with a sandstone gutter cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes with projecting painted stone sills and painted stone lintels that include false voussoirs and keystones.
The porch is notable for its brick pilasters that have stone bases and capitals, a cornice, and a blocking course, along with a 4-centred stone archway. The inner doorway features a timber doorcase with narrow pilasters and a door that has two raised and fielded panels above two flush panels. Inside, the house reportedly has an open-string dog-leg staircase with stick balusters and carved tread brackets, four-panel doors with reeded architraves, window shutters, and a fireplace made of black marble or slate with a cast-iron grate.
Local climate
40, High 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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