Office Premises of George Wright (Rotherham) Ltd is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Office. 1 related planning application.
Office Premises of George Wright (Rotherham) Ltd
- WRENN ID
- winding-gutter-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Constituency
- Rotherham MP: Sarah Champion (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Office Premises of George Wright (Rotherham) Ltd, the Crofts
- OS grid reference
- SK 429 927
- Coordinates
- 53.42991, -1.35573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The office premises of George Wright (Rotherham) Ltd are an early 19th-century building originally constructed for Messrs. Tunnicliffe, Ball, Wheatley, Potter, and Brown. The structure is made of ashlar sandstone and features a coated slate roof. It is a single-storey building with a four-bay entrance front and a rear left wing that is not of special interest. The original three-bay entrance facade, now facing an enclosed yard, has been given a basement storey due to the fall of the land.
Designed in the Tudor Revival style, the facade includes a plinth, with the outer bays projecting forward. Each of these bays has a doorway flanked by monolithic piers and a cornice beneath the left doorway, which is boarded-up and leads to a through passage. The right doorway features part-glazed double doors. A continuous stringcourse rises as a hoodmould over a central three-light chamfered-mullion window.
The upper floor has outer bays flanked by attached octagonal shafts that rise as turrets, with each bay featuring an apron panel of shields and a string course beneath a Tudor-arched opening, with the first bay's opening being blind. The central bay has a plain apron and string course beneath a three-light mullioned window with ogee-headed lights and hoodmoulds that have blank-shield stops. The facade is topped with a continuous moulded cornice beneath a parapet that steps up over a central blank shield, and there are miniature embattlements on the outer bays and turrets.
The front of the building is less ornate, with a doorway in the second bay featuring double doors, each with a foiled light and a deeply-chamfered surround. There are hoodmoulds over the flanking windows and a large Tudor-arched opening to the basement through-passage on the right, which has a large moulded corbel and a single-light window above it. Historical records indicate that the buildings served as lawyer's offices from 1777 to 1887, although it is unlikely that the current offices predate the early 19th century.
Local climate
Office Premises of George Wright (Rotherham) Ltd receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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