Former Commercial Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Hotel.
Former Commercial Hotel
- WRENN ID
- kindled-quartz-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Former Commercial Hotel, 125, Liverpool Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 829 978
- Coordinates
- 53.47691, -2.25787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Commercial Hotel is a hotel built in the early to mid 19th century, with some alterations made over time. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring some sandstone dressings, and has a slate roof. The building has a double-depth, double-fronted plan with a rear wing and stands three storeys tall with three bays.
The central entrance has a round-headed doorway with a set-in doorcase supported by Tuscan columns and a dentilled cornice, along with a plain fanlight above. To the right, there is a "corner-shop" shop-front with a splayed doorway flanked by one window on each side, all set within a pilastered surround that includes a right-angled frieze and a dentilled cornice. The windows have raised sills and flat-arched heads made of gauged brick, with the left window of the door featuring altered glazing, while the upper floors have 4-pane sash windows.
The right-hand return wall has four windows, a round-headed doorway, and altered windows at the ground floor, with 4-pane sashes above. The interior of the building has also been altered.
Local climate
Former Commercial Hotel 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 81% 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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