28, Melville Street is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1972. Villa. 1 related planning application.
28, Melville Street
- WRENN ID
- strange-hall-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight East MP: Joe Robertson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1972
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 28, Melville Street, Ryde, PO33 2AN
- OS grid reference
- SZ 597 925
- Coordinates
- 50.72953, -1.15546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a villa dating from around the 1830s and 1840s. It is stucco-faced and has a low-pitched slate roof with wide eaves. The front of Melville Street has three windows, with a narrower window in the centre. These windows are recessed and have sash windows, with later glazing bars. They are surrounded by architraves and have block sills. Only one original window remains on the ground floor, to the east. A brick bay window has been added to the rest of the front at a later date, and a rendered brick screen wall with a string course and coping runs from this bay to the west party wall, incorporating a side entrance door. A narrow two-storey wing with a single window has also been added to the west.
The north-facing garden front, overlooking Bellevue Road, has three windows, with two arranged in a bow to the east, spanning both storeys. These also have sash windows with intact glazing bars, architraves, and block sills. The ground floor of the bow features French windows with marginal glazing bars, along with a later French window on the ground floor to the west. The added wing has a sash window with glazing bars on the first floor and a French window on the ground floor. The house was formerly used by members of Queen Victoria's retinue during an early visit to the Isle of Wight.
Nos 25 to 28, Melville Street, along with No 1 Trinity Street, form a notable group.
Local climate
28, Melville Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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