Anglia House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Insurance office. 35 related planning applications.
Anglia House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-window-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Insurance office
- Address
- Anglia House, Cross Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 838 982
- Coordinates
- 53.48038, -2.24526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anglia House is an insurance office built in 1906 by Charles Heathcote. The building is constructed with brown polished granite to the ground floor, red sandstone ashlar above, and lead-clad roofs. It occupies an end-of-block site with a narrow rectangular plan and a canted corner. The architectural style is Free Baroque.
The building has three storeys and an attic, presenting a 1:3:1-bay facade to Cross Street and a single-bay facade to John Dalton Street. The ground floor features an Ionic colonnade with doorways in the corner and the fourth bay, and shop windows in the remaining bays, all set beneath a pulvinated frieze and prominent cornice. The upper floors are characterised by heavily moulded cornices, pierced by projected outer bays with banded pilasters and emphatic, steeply-pitched attic pediments. The first floor has two-light casements with broken pediments, the second floor has coupled 12-pane sash windows recessed behind a screen with coupled colonnettes, and the attic level features round-headed casements with radiating glazing bars. Other first-floor windows are casements with enriched architraves, while the second-floor windows are sashed. A flat-roofed dormer is located centrally above the facade, with casement windows.
A cylindrical Baroque turret rises from the corner, featuring banded pilasters, a prominent cornice, a round-headed window with an open pediment on colonnettes, and an ogival domed roof with consoles over the pilasters. Tall, corniced chimneys are present. The facade facing John Dalton Street mirrors the pedimented bays of the Cross Street elevation. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Anglia House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 12 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 35 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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