38, 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. 3 related planning applications.
38, Melville Street
- WRENN ID
- leaning-trefoil-scarlet
- 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
- 38, Melville Street, Ryde, PO33 2AN
- OS grid reference
- SZ 596 925
- Coordinates
- 50.72913, -1.15576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
38 Melville Street is a small villa built around 1840. It is two storeys high and has a stucco façade. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, covered with slate, and features projecting eaves. To the west, there is a gabled bay. The main block has three recessed windows, which are sash with intact glazing bars and block sills. The gabled bay includes a bay window with three lights, which are sash with later glazing bars, along with plain strips, a frieze, a cornice, and a stepped apron. The central entrance features a recessed panelled and glazed door with splayed reveals. Nos 35 to 39 Melville Street form a group with this property.
Local climate
38, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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