Princes Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Warehouse, offices. 5 related planning applications.
Princes Chambers
- WRENN ID
- secret-cinder-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Warehouse, offices
- Address
- Princes Chambers, 19, Chapel Walks, M2 1HN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 839 983
- Coordinates
- 53.48178, -2.24339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Princes Chambers is a mid to late 19th-century warehouse and office building, now used entirely as offices. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings and features a concealed roof. The building has a trapezoidal plan on a corner site with rounded corners, designed in the Italian palazzo style. It rises four storeys over a basement and has a symmetrical five-bay facade, plus one bay at the rounded corners. The facade includes a stone plinth, a cornice above the ground floor, sill-bands on the second and third floors, and a prominent bracketed eaves cornice. The ground floor is arcaded with round-headed arches supported by broad stone pilasters, linked moulded imposts, and moulded heads with keystones. The central doorway has internal steps and is flanked by recessed round-headed sashes without glazing bars. The upper floors feature similar arcaded fenestration, with linking stone imposts and stilted keyed hoodmoulds; the windows are segmental-headed on the first and second floors and round-headed on the third floor, with the first-floor windows sashed without glazing bars and the upper windows altered to casements. The building has an eight-bay facade facing Pall Mall, matching the style of the main facade. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Princes 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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