Nelson House is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1974. Office. 2 related planning applications.
Nelson House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-step-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden MP: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1974
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Nelson House, 28, Nelson Square, BL1 1JT
- OS grid reference
- SD 718 090
- Coordinates
- 53.57759, -2.42646
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nelson House is an office building dated 1889, designed by Alfred Waterhouse for the Prudential Assurance Company. It is constructed of brick and terracotta with a slate roof. The building has three storeys, including a high ground storey with an inserted mezzanine floor.
The exterior features a three-window range facing Bradshawgate, with an oriel turret at the corner and a two-window return to Nelson Square. The ground floor openings on Bradshawgate include a central entrance, which has been renewed but retains its original openings with drop-ended hoodmoulds. The entrance on Nelson Square has also been renewed.
A full-height canted oriel window forms the angle turret, with terracotta panels beneath the mullioned and transomed first-floor windows. There is an oriel window above the entrance on the Bradshawgate elevation. All first-floor windows are mullioned and transomed, featuring arched upper lights. The second storey has arched lights in the mullioned windows, with blind arcading forming a frieze below them. The turret has arched lights at the upper level, and there is a coped gable over the right-hand windows in the Nelson Square elevation. The building also has end wall stacks. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Nelson House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 2023
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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