The Environmental Institute is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1966. Office.
The Environmental Institute
- WRENN ID
- solemn-bastion-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Salford MP: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1966
- Type
- Office
- Address
- The Environmental Institute, Bolton Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 787 016
- Coordinates
- 53.51116, -2.32145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Environmental Institute, formerly known as St. Augustine's School, is a building dating from around 1874, designed by G. F. Bodley for Edward Stanley Heywood. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a clay tile roof. The building features a long hall with eight bays, which includes a 20th-century mezzanine floor. It is designed in a Free Gothic style.
The first and eighth bays project as gabled wings, each featuring two 2-light mullion and transom windows beneath a carved stone panel, with coped gables that have kneelers. The other bays are supported by weathered and gableted buttresses and have two 3-light mullion and transom windows under a continuous hoodmould. The steep roof is adorned with a row of 20th-century rooflights and an elegant cupola bell-cote. The gable ends have mullion and transom windows flanking a central buttress.
An arched door on the left side has a moulded stone surround and cusped panelling above. At the rear, there is a wall that encloses a yard, and the rear elevation is treated similarly to the front. The interior has been significantly altered to accommodate its conversion into offices.
Local climate
The Environmental Institute 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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