St Andrews Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Office. 3 related planning applications.

St Andrews Chambers

WRENN ID
tilted-chapel-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
Office
Address
St Andrews Chambers, 20 and 21, Albert Square, M2 5PE
OS grid reference
SJ 838 980
Coordinates
53.47883, -2.24543
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Andrew's Chambers is an office building constructed in 1874 by G.T. Redmayne for the Scottish Widows Fund Life Assurance Society. It is made of sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan situated on a corner site, with a splayed corner and is designed in the Gothic style. It stands four storeys high with a basement.

The facade facing Albert Square is asymmetrical with two windows, while the corner has one window, and the facade on Mount Street has five windows. All floors are accented with string courses, and there is a corbel table supporting a balustraded parapet between the gables at both ends and at the corner.

On the Albert Square facade, there are coupled round-headed entrance arches with shafts that have carved capitals. Above these arches is a pointed arch with nail-head enrichment, flanked by roundels, one of which contains a carved shield and the date "1872." The upper floors feature arched single-light windows on the left and large two-light windows on the right, embellished with Gothic details and topped with a two-centred arched head that rises into a gable.

The splayed corner includes chamfered corners and a round-headed window at the ground floor. The upper floors are corbelled out and contain two-light Gothic windows with various enrichments, topped by a crocketed gable and flanked by tourelles.

The Mount Street facade has three windows on the left and two on the right, with a gabled end that slightly projects forward, also flanked by tourelles. The windows here are round-headed at the ground floor, two-centred at the first floor, trefoil-headed at the second floor, and square-headed at the third floor. The gabled portion features arcaded windows, and the right side on the first floor also has arcaded windows, with a carved niche in the center that contains a statue. The building is topped with steeply pitched gables and a roof with ridge chimneys. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

St Andrews Chambers 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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