Arkwright House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1982. Office, restaurant. 14 related planning applications.
Arkwright House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-cloister-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1982
- Type
- Office, restaurant
- Address
- Arkwright House, Parsonage Gardens, M3 2LF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 835 984
- Coordinates
- 53.48226, -2.24881
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Arkwright House is a building located in Manchester, constructed in 1929 by Harry S. Fairhurst. Originally designed as offices, it now serves as a restaurant and office space. The structure features a steel frame with Portland stone cladding and has a large trapeziform plan on an island site, showcasing a Neo-classical style.
The building stands five storeys tall, plus two attic storeys, and is divided into a 1:14:1 bay arrangement, with the end bays set back. The first two storeys of the main range create a podium for a three-storey order of giant Corinthian-style pilasters, which are topped with a plain frieze and a dentilled cornice. Above this, the two attic storeys are set back and finished with a frieze, cornice, and blocking course.
The ground floor features banded rustication and an arcade of round-headed windows with stepped voussoirs. The first floor and the first attic storey have 2-light mullioned windows, while the three floors of the pilastrade are adorned with bronze-framed 3-light windows, which include ornamental panels between the floors. The upper attic storey has simple 1-light windows. The return elevations are similar to the main facade but include two columns in antis.
Local climate
Arkwright 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 — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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