Council Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Civic building. 1 related planning application.
Council Chambers
- WRENN ID
- ruined-kitchen-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North MP: Mr James Frith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Civic building
- Address
- Council Chambers, Ramsbottom Lane, BL0 9DJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 790 170
- Coordinates
- 53.64924, -2.31823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Council Chambers is a classical building, likely constructed around 1850, located at the corner of Ramsbottom Lane and Market Place. It is built of ashlar and stands three storeys tall. The façade features six sash windows, with an additional four on the left-hand return front and one on the rounded corner. The corner has a bracketed cornice above the ground floor window and a bracketed pediment above the first floor window. The ground floor windows on either side of the corner are larger, with glazing bars creating three arched lights and a bracketed pediment above. Below the fourth window on the front, there is a depressed-arch vehicular entry. As the ground rises on Market Place, a door with a bracketed cornice replaces a window at the left end on the first floor. The building also has sill bands, quoins, an eaves cornice with a blocking course, and a simplified pediment over the corner. The adjacent Civil Hall, which is linked to the rear, is not included in this listing.
Local climate
Council Chambers 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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