Bank Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Hartlepool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1984. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
Bank Chambers
- WRENN ID
- waning-moulding-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hartlepool
- Constituency
- Hartlepool MP: Mr Jonathan Brash (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1984
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Bank Chambers, 71-72, Church Street, TS24 7DN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 513 327
- Coordinates
- 54.6869, -1.20542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank Chambers is a commercial building located on Church Street in Hartlepool, constructed around 1913. It is designed in a restrained Baroque style and built from sandstone ashlar, with a roof that is not visible. The building stands three storeys high and features five bays. The ground floor is banded rusticated and has an entablature with a modillion cornice. The two outer bays project slightly and contain double doors with patterned overlights, framed by enriched architraves adorned with paterae and angle lion masks. Ornate scrolled triple keys are integrated into bayleaf friezes and modillion cornices. Above the doors are panels that read 'BANK' and 'CHAMBERS'.
The middle bays feature long windows with modern glazing set in plain reveals, and enriched plaques with insignia are positioned between them. The first-floor windows have continuous projecting sills and are topped with alternate triangular and segmental pediments above entablatures. The central window is framed by an aedicule with Ionic pilasters, while blind balustrades sit below the windows in the outer bays, where giant rusticated quasi Ionic pilasters flank the windows and support the top entablature with a modillion cornice. Short end-bay towers with raised panels are present, and a balustraded parapet runs between the towers. The second-floor windows are square and set in eared and shouldered architraves.
Local climate
Bank Chambers receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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