Lee House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. Warehouse. 20 related planning applications.
Lee House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-pier-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Lee House, 90, Great Bridgewater Street, M1 5JW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 839 976
- Coordinates
- 53.47508, -2.24329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lee House is a warehouse built between 1928 and 1931 as an extension to the Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee building at 56 Oxford Street. Designed by Harry S. Fairhurst and Son, the building remains uncompleted. It features a steel frame clad in brown brick, bronze-framed windows, and some Portland stone dressings, although the roof is not visible. The structure has a rectangular plan and exemplifies the International style, rising eight storeys above a basement.
The facade facing Bridgewater Street consists of six bays, characterized by broad corner pilasters and narrow chamfered piers, all made of brick. The windows are vertically continuous canted 3-light fenestration with bronze panels between the floors, except in the sixth bay, which has square windows and brick ribbed panels. The basement-to-first-floor levels of the first two bays contain a rectangular loading bay, while the fourth bay features a doorway with a window above it, and the sixth bay has one window on each floor, all faced in Portland stone with Art Deco ornament. Each bay is capped with slightly arched Portland stone and has a metal rail attached by brackets that runs around the building. The right-hand return and rear of the building are similar in design.
Originally, the building was designed to rise to 217 feet with 17 storeys, but its completion was likely hindered by the Great Depression of 1929-31.
Local climate
Lee 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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- Related listed building consents — 20 applications
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- 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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