Offices of Dronsfield and Company is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1973. Office building.
Offices of Dronsfield and Company
- WRENN ID
- young-spandrel-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton MP: Jim McMahon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1973
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Offices of Dronsfield and Company, Ashton Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 923 045
- Coordinates
- 53.53716, -2.11617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Offices of Dronsfield and Company is an office building constructed between 1906 and 1908, designed by JH Sellers. It features polished granite and green glazed brick with a flat reinforced concrete roof. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical layout, with two three-window ranges on either side of a central entrance tower. The lower storey is made of polished granite, while the central entrance porch has a low upper storey that includes a round-arched window projecting from a recessed tower. This tower has a round-arched window on the first floor and is set above the eaves line, flanked by paired stacks. On each side of the central feature, there are three iron-framed windows on both floors, each with sixteen panes and a slim central mullion. The upper windows on either side are set within shallow concave panelled granite architraves.
Local climate
Offices of Dronsfield and Company sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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