Mansfield Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Shop with offices. 18 related planning applications.
Mansfield Chambers
- WRENN ID
- spare-jamb-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Shop with offices
- Address
- Mansfield Chambers, 17-23, St Anns Square, M2 7PS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 838 983
- Coordinates
- 53.48206, -2.24536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mansfield Chambers is a shop with offices above, likely built in the late 19th century and altered since. The building features stucco on brick, with stone and stone-imitating fibre-glass dressings, and has a concealed roof. It is designed in an Italianate style and has four storeys with five bays, the first bay being narrower and slightly set back. The ground and first floors have a four-bay giant arcade, with the first floor treated as a mezzanine. This arcade includes pilasters (partly or wholly made of fibre-glass), a frieze, and a moulded cornice. The third floor is low, featuring a sill-band and frieze, topped by a modillioned cornice and a pilastered parapet adorned with urns. The arcade has 20th-century shop fronts at the ground floor and semi-circular windows above. The narrow bay on the left has a doorway with 20th-century doors, a rectangular overlight, a frieze inscribed "MANSFIELD CHAMBERS," and a segmental pediment on long fluted consoles. Above this, there is a round-headed two-light window with circular tracery. The second floor features round-headed sashes within moulded architraves that have swags and cornices, while the third floor has short sashed windows. Three chimneys are visible above the parapet. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Mansfield 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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