Health Office is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1949. Office. 2 related planning applications.

Health Office

WRENN ID
rusted-cobalt-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Warrington
Constituency
Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 December 1949
Type
Office
Address
Health Office, 86, Sankey Street, WA1 1SG
OS grid reference
SJ 603 881
Coordinates
53.3889, -2.59813
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Health Office is an 18th-century detached house located on Sankey Street. It is built of brick on a stone base and has three storeys, featuring an eaves cornice and a single stone string course. The building has a slight central projection topped with a pediment. The entrance is located in a slight segmental-headed recess and consists of a four-panel octagonal door set in a stone doorcase, flanked by three-quarter Roman Doric columns. The doorcase is adorned with a pediment and a semi-circular fanlight with bars.

On the ground floor, there are four sash windows, while the upper floors have five sash windows, all set within architraves that have a moulded centre, flat brick heads, and stone sills. To the right side at the rear, there is a lower two-storeyed portion with a second entrance, which features flat wood pilasters and a pediment. The left-hand gable end has been rebuilt.

This building is part of a group that includes Nos 76 to 86, which houses the Borough Treasurer's Office and Bank House, as well as the Town Hall and its eastern and western outbuildings, entrance gates, piers, and lamps, forming a cohesive architectural ensemble with Nos 73, 101A, and 101B.

Local climate

Health Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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