5 and 5a, Melville Street is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1972. Townhouse. 1 related planning application.
5 and 5a, Melville Street
- WRENN ID
- graven-thatch-russet
- 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
- Townhouse
- Address
- 5 and 5a, Melville Street, Ryde, PO33 2AE
- OS grid reference
- SZ 593 925
- Coordinates
- 50.72988, -1.16042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 5 and 5A on Melville Street date from around 1840 to 1850. This building is two storeys high and has a stuccoed exterior. It features a parapet with coping and a block cornice. The first floor has a bay window with three lights, which are sash windows without glazing bars, and it has plain strips, a dentil cornice, and a plain apron. There is a small mid-19th century shop front with one window made of plate glass, flanked by thin colonettes, and a glazed door. A blind case occupies the cornice area. Numbers 1 to 5A on this side of the street form a group.
Local climate
5 and 5a, 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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- 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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