Electricity Junction Box in Castlefield canal basin, Manchester is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. Junction box.
Electricity Junction Box in Castlefield canal basin, Manchester
- WRENN ID
- winding-cloister-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Junction box
- Address
- Electricity Junction Box in Castlefield canal basin, Manchester, North Bank of Castlefield Canal Basin, Adj to Nw Face of Bridgewater Viaduct, M3 4LY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 833 975
- Coordinates
- 53.47409, -2.25262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The electricity junction box, dating from the early 20th century, was manufactured by Hardy and Padmore of Worcester for Manchester City Council. It is made of cast iron and is located in the Castlefield Conservation Area, near the listed former Congregational chapel and two other similar boxes on Castle Street and the south bank of the basin.
The box has longer sides that face north-east and south-west. It 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 with a moulded surround, and each door has two decorative strap hinges on the right-hand side. The doors are adorned with Jacobean-style geometric strapwork reliefs that frame a detachable plaque displaying the crest of the City of Manchester. The two shorter sides of the box are plain with moulded edges, and the east side is mostly hidden by the viaduct next to it. The box is painted black.
Local climate
Electricity Junction Box in Castlefield canal basin, Manchester 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 81% 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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