Melbourne House is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1974. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Melbourne House
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Melbourne House, 6, Lower Street, GL5 2HT
- OS grid reference
- SO 855 049
- Coordinates
- 51.74343, -2.21125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melbourne House is a late 18th-century building located on Loher Street. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a pitched slate roof with one ashlar chimney. The house stands three storeys tall and has a blocking course at the roofline. Above the ground floor, there is a plain stringcourse. The façade includes three sets of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance is marked by a six-panelled door topped with a semi-circular fanlight and a vaulted hood that has a trefoil motif in the rail.
Local climate
Melbourne House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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