Melton Wingate Opticians is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1970. House, opticians. 2 related planning applications.
Melton Wingate Opticians
- WRENN ID
- spare-attic-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Newark MP: Robert Jenrick (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1970
- Type
- House, opticians
- Address
- Melton Wingate Opticians, 28-29, Wilson Street, NG24 1EN
- OS grid reference
- SK 799 539
- Coordinates
- 53.077, -0.8086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melton Wingate Opticians is a former end pavilion of a terrace, now functioning as a house and an opticians, dating from 1766 and a late 19th-century addition around 1880. It was built for Dr. Bernard Wilson, the vicar of Newark. The building is constructed of brick and features a hipped pantile roof with a single ridge stack. It has a plinth, first and second floor bands, and modillion eaves. The windows are adorned with brick flat arches. The structure has three storeys and a total of 12 windows arranged in a 4 x 3 configuration, including four 12-pane sash windows and four six-pane sash windows above. The entrance consists of an off-centre six-panel door with an overlight, flanked on the left by a single 12-pane sash and on the right by two similar sashes. The left side of the building has three blank windows on each floor, with the ground floor left window replaced by a door. The right side features three 12-pane sashes, with the rightmost window blank, and above, there are three six-pane sashes. A single-storey late 19th-century addition, made of colourwashed brick, has a hipped slate roof and includes a glazed corner doorway with two single-pane windows on the left side and one on the right. The adjoining terrace was demolished around 1964.
Local climate
Melton Wingate Opticians sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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