Joule House is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Joule House
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-cobalt-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Salford MP: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Joule House, 1, Acton Square, M5 4NY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 819 986
- Coordinates
- 53.48413, -2.27284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Joule House is a group of three houses, dating from the early 19th century, located on The Crescent in Salford. The buildings are constructed of brick with Welsh slate roofs and are now used as offices. They stand three storeys tall, with an eight-window range facing The Crescent and a four-window range on the return elevation to Acton Square, which includes a lower wing.
The elevation to The Crescent features two symmetrically designed units with an advanced central block of four bays, where the entrances are located in the outer bays. Each entrance has an eight-panelled door set within projecting Ionic doorcases. The windows are 12-pane sash types, all with flat-arched gauged brick heads, and there is a continuous sill-band at the first floor level. The design includes a plain eaves cornice and angle pilasters, along with end wall and axial stacks.
The return elevation to No.1 Acton Square has a four-window range with an advanced central bay that features a doorway in a projecting Ionic porch to the left of centre. This elevation also has 12-pane sash windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads and a sill-band at the first floor. An end wall stack is present as well.
Joule House is notable for its historical connection to James Prescott Joule, a scientist born in Salford in 1818, who lived and worked in the house. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Joule 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 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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