Careers Office That Part of the Civic Offices Which Was Formerly the Water Board Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Offices.
Careers Office That Part of the Civic Offices Which Was Formerly the Water Board Offices
- WRENN ID
- stony-loft-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne MP: Angela Rayner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- Careers Office That Part of the Civic Offices Which Was Formerly the Water Board Offices, Market Place
- OS grid reference
- SJ 938 992
- Coordinates
- 53.48958, -2.09443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former Water Board Office, now part of the Civic Offices, located in Ashton-under-Lyne Market Place. It dates from around 1840 but was completely reconstructed with a steel-framed structure in the 20th century. The exterior is made of ashlar and features five by eight bays across three storeys. It has a projecting plinth, sill bands, and an eaves cornice with a blocking course. There is a door in the second bay with a flat hood and pilasters, and additional doors in bays six and seven, as well as one on the left return, which have architraves and console brackets supporting flat hoods. A large elliptical-headed window in bay four has a rusticated surround and a dropped keystone. At the top, a carved lion is centrally positioned above the blocking course. The other architectural details are more restrained, with sash windows set in plain openings.
Local climate
Careers Office That Part of the Civic Offices Which Was Formerly the Water Board Offices 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings