1, 3 and 5 (Piccadilly Chambers) is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1997. Bank, shops, offices. 5 related planning applications.
1, 3 and 5 (Piccadilly Chambers)
- WRENN ID
- tired-thatch-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1997
- Type
- Bank, shops, offices
- Address
- 1, 3 and 5 (Piccadilly Chambers), 2 and 4, Pavement, YO1 9LB
- OS grid reference
- SE 604 517
- Coordinates
- 53.95841, -1.08001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1, 3, and 5 Piccadilly Chambers is a bank, shops, and offices built between 1915 and 1921 by Brierley and Rutherford, with alterations made in 1992. The ground floor is made of ashlar and reconstituted stone, while the upper floors are constructed of red brick in English bond, except for an ashlar corner bay. The building features ashlar dressings and a cornice, with a tiled roof that has brick stacks and copings, along with an inserted flat-topped dormer containing a 4-light small-pane window.
The structure has three storeys and an attic, with a splayed corner bay between a three-bay front on the Pavement side and a ten-bay front on Piccadilly. The corner bay is rusticated on the ground floor, featuring renewed double doors within a pedimented doorcase. The upper floor openings are flanked by giant order Corinthian pilasters, with the first-floor window having a triple-keyed architrave in a pedimented surround of rusticated pilasters, leading to a wrought-iron balcony balustrade. The second-floor window has a voluted architrave.
On the Piccadilly front, there is a projecting quoined entrance bay that includes a six-panel door and a first-floor window in a triple-keyed architrave with an ashlar segmental pediment. The ground floor openings are framed in tripled pilasters beneath a broad frieze and moulded cornice. An original shopfront remains at the right end, featuring a glazed and panelled door in a shaped architrave beneath a pulvinated frieze, moulded cornice, and decorative overlight. The windows are canted, made of plate glass with square lattice glazing above the transoms. Other ground floor openings consist of renewed windows with stone sills. All first-floor windows are 15-pane sashes with keyed flat arches made of rubbed and gauged brick and stone sills, while the second-floor windows are 12-pane sashes with stone sills. The building has a moulded cornice and frieze at the eaves, with a rainwater head dated 1915. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
1, 3 and 5 (Piccadilly Chambers) receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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