Trinity House is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1978. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Trinity House
- WRENN ID
- broken-tracery-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Wythenshawe and Sale East MP: Mike Kane (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1978
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Trinity House, 114, Northenden Road, M33 3FZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 796 915
- Coordinates
- 53.42065, -2.30718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Trinity House is a Methodist chapel, now used as auction rooms, built in 1875 by Pennington and Bridgen of Manchester. The building is constructed of brick and ashlar with a slate roof and features a classic chapel plan with a three-sided gallery. The entrance front is two stories high and has five bays, highlighted by a full-height distyle Ionic portico in antis, giving it a grand appearance. The façade includes a rusticated stone plinth, giant corner pilasters, a dentilled cornice, and an entablature inscribed with "TRINITY CHAPEL." It also features a three-bay dentilled pediment with a cross in the tympanum. The outer bay windows on the ground floor have enriched entablatures with antefixae, while a semi-circular headed window on the first floor is framed by an architrave and an enriched panel. The side elevations are designed in a related style with seven bays.
Inside, staircases flank the portico and lead to the gallery, which has a panelled pitch pine parapet with an enriched plaster band and is supported by cast iron columns with elaborate capitals. The central wooden pulpit is positioned in front of the former organ arch, which is now blocked, and features a panelled soffit with giant half columns and pilasters. The ceiling is coved and includes an enriched panelled cupola that supports a large wrought iron light fitting. The interior also contains stained glass. The design of the chapel was selected through a competition.
Local climate
Trinity House 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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