Carlton House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Club and offices. 10 related planning applications.
Carlton House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-sill-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Club and offices
- Address
- Carlton House, 17 and 18, Albert Square, M2 5PE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 837 980
- Coordinates
- 53.47886, -2.24562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carlton House, located in Albert Square, Manchester, is a former club and offices built in 1872 by Clegg and Knowles. The building is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan and is designed in a Free Venetian Gothic style. The structure consists of a basement and four storeys, plus an attic, with four unequal bays. The outer bays have three-storey canted oriels, and there is a bracketed cornice along the top, with gabled attic dormers above the oriels.
The main entrance is a two-centred arched doorway located in the third bay, which includes a trefoil intrados, shafts, and imposts adorned with knobbly foliation. The building has sashed windows arranged in groups of 3:3:2:3, featuring various styles such as segmental-pointed, shouldered, trefoiled, and square-headed, along with decorative elements like shafts with foliated caps and carved panelled aprons. The interior was not inspected. Historically, Carlton House served as the offices of the Bridgewater Canal Company and was also the premises of the Manchester Arts Club.
Local climate
Carlton 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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