Cardigan House is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1976. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Cardigan House
- WRENN ID
- dim-eave-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1976
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Cardigan House, 55, Burton Street, LE13 1AF
- OS grid reference
- SK 753 188
- Coordinates
- 52.76234, -0.88416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cardigan House is an early 19th-century red brick house located on Burton Street. It features stone bands between the floors, a wide eaves cornice supported by paired modillions, and a slate roof. The building has three storeys and three sash windows with glazing bars, although two of the windows have modern glazing. The central entrance has a modern glazed door framed by a rusticated stone surround and a projecting stone porch designed in the Roman Ionic order, complete with a plain frieze and cornice. Above the porch is a good cast iron balcony. In front of the house, there is a small terrace that has lost its railings. Viscount Brudenell lived in this house until his death in 1868; he later became the Earl of Cardigan and is known for ordering the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. The listed buildings on Burton Street, including Nos 24 to 36 (even), form a group of local interest.
Local climate
Cardigan 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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