Minerva Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Office building. 2 related planning applications.
Minerva Chambers
- WRENN ID
- tall-banister-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1985
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Minerva Chambers, 20, Sir Thomas Street, L1 6BA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 345 905
- Coordinates
- 53.40789, -2.98652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minerva Chambers is an office building dating from the 1880s. It is constructed of stone with a slate roof. The building is four storeys high, with a basement and attic, and comprises seven bays of varying widths. Attached shafts with foliated capitals support a cornice, dividing the basement, first, and second floor bays. The windows in the second and sixth bays are tripartite with iron mullions. First-floor windows, with segmental heads cut by flat floors, have wider windows in the fourth and sixth bays. Second-floor windows are round-headed, with carved pendants between them. Third-floor windows have projecting sills on brackets. A top, bracketed cornice and parapet are decorated with carved panels and feature a central inscription reading "MINERVA CHAMBERS." The building has a Mansard roof with round dormers.
Local climate
Minerva Chambers sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 16 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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