Town Hall is a Grade I listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1952. A C19 Town hall. 13 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- errant-tallow-jackdaw
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1952
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, Albert Square, M2 5DB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 838 980
- Coordinates
- 53.47929, -2.24455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall, located in Albert Square, was built between 1868 and 1877 by architect Alfred Waterhouse. It features a sandstone ashlar facade over a brick structure and is topped with slate roofs. The building occupies a triangular island site, with three main sections surrounding a triangular courtyard that is primarily occupied by a rectangular Great Hall. Designed in the Gothic style, the Town Hall stands three storeys tall with attics. It is a building of significant importance, housing mural paintings by Ford Madox Brown and statuary by W. Theed, Jr.
Local climate
Town Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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