Electricity Junction Box is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 2018. Infrastructure.
Electricity Junction Box
- WRENN ID
- turning-mortar-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 2018
- Type
- Infrastructure
- Address
- Electricity Junction Box, Library Walk, M2 5PD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 838 980
- Coordinates
- 53.47851, -2.24487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 20th-century electricity junction box made by Hardy and Padmore Ltd for Manchester City Council. It is constructed from cast iron and has a rectangular shape. The longer sides of the box run parallel to the south wall of the town hall extension, with the front facing south.
The box features a low pyramidal cap with castellated edges above a moulded cornice, which is supported at each corner by an inward-scrolled corbel. Each of the two longer sides serves as a door, framed by a moulded surround and fitted with two decorative strap hinges on the right side. The doors are adorned with Jacobean-style geometric strapwork relief. On the front, this strapwork encircles a detachable plaque that displays the crest of the City of Manchester, while the rear face does not have a crest.
The two short sides of the box are plain but have moulded edges. Each short side features a circular relief that reads ‘Hardy and Padmore Limited, Worcester,’ and the east side includes a raised banner at the base with the registered design number. The entire box is painted black.
Local climate
Electricity Junction Box 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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