Ocean Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1994. Office building. 2 related planning applications.
Ocean Chambers
- WRENN ID
- long-doorway-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice MP: Emma Hardy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1994
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Ocean Chambers, 54, Lowgate, HU1 1JF
- OS grid reference
- TA 100 287
- Coordinates
- 53.74363, -0.33289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ocean Chambers is an office building located at 54 Lowgate in Kingston upon Hull, constructed between 1899 and 1900 by the architectural firm Brodrick, Lowther & Walker. The building is designed in the Baroque Revival style and features ashlar stonework with a plain tile roof and three brick side wall stacks topped with stone coping.
The structure has three storeys and four storeys plus a basement and attics, arranged in a three-window range. The asymmetrical facade includes two canted bay windows, with the right bay extending three storeys and the left bay four storeys. These bays are adorned with five-light cross mullioned windows, supported by Ionic columns at the corners and flanked by Ionic pilasters.
In the center of the first floor, there is a three-light mullioned window above the entrance, with a four-light cross mullioned window above that, and another similar three-light window above that. To the right, a dormer with a coped gable features a three-light cross mullioned window and is topped with a niche that has a segmental pediment. To the left, a shouldered coped gable has two small windows separated by a panel under a cornice, topped with a niche featuring a broken segmental pediment and finial.
The right corner of the building has a canted design with a dentillated cornice and is topped with an ogee lead dome, which includes two three-light casements. The central entrance is framed by diced Ionic columns that support a segmental pediment on scroll brackets. The tympanum above the entrance features a high relief sculpture with a wreathed oval cartouche flanked by dolphins. The doorcase is moulded with a double keystone, leading to a recessed round-arched doorway. Additionally, there is a blocked four-light mullioned basement window below the bay window on the right.
Local climate
Ocean Chambers receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 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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