Former Goods Offices to Piccadilly Station is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Goods offices.

Former Goods Offices to Piccadilly Station

WRENN ID
little-steeple-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1994
Type
Goods offices
Address
Former Goods Offices to Piccadilly Station, London Road
OS grid reference
SJ 847 978
Coordinates
53.47702, -2.23148
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former goods offices to Piccadilly Station, built around 1850-1860, are designed in a Renaissance style and constructed from sandstone ashlar. The building features a two-storey facade that includes a lettered frieze above the ground floor, a pedimented doorway, and round-headed windows on the first floor, each adorned with elaborate architraves. The structure serves as a facade to the basement goods warehousing located beneath the station.

Local climate

Former Goods Offices to Piccadilly Station 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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