Bridgewater Canal Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Office. 2 related planning applications.
Bridgewater Canal Offices
- WRENN ID
- grey-chimney-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Bridgewater Canal Offices, Chester Road, M15 4WG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 831 973
- Coordinates
- 53.47268, -2.25472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bridgewater Canal Offices, originally the Officers' Mess of the Manchester Regiment, date from around 1800 and have undergone alterations. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, and is designed in a Georgian style. It has an L-shaped plan and stands two storeys tall, featuring ten bays that are designed to resemble two symmetrical five-bay houses. Each house has a three-bay pedimented center that slightly projects forward. Architectural details include a rendered plinth, a first-floor sill-band, a modillioned wooden eaves cornice, and coped gables. The windows are 12-pane sashed with flat-arched heads. There are two chimneys located centrally on either side of the ridge. To the left, there is a single-storey, one-bay extension that includes a porch with a moulded stone doorcase, a rectangular overlight, and a cornice. The rear of the building, which faces Crown Street to the west, features sashed windows set in arched reveals and two arched doorways.
Local climate
Bridgewater Canal Offices 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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