Leopold Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1995. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
Leopold Chambers
- WRENN ID
- waning-flint-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1995
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Leopold Chambers, 47 and 49, Church Street, S1 2GL
- OS grid reference
- SK 352 874
- Coordinates
- 53.38234, -1.47135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leopold Chambers is a commercial building located on Leopold Street in Sheffield, constructed in 1894 by the architectural firm Holmes & Watson for the solicitors Webster & Styring. The building features a Flemish Renaissance Revival style and is made of ashlar stone with a slate roof. It has two gable and three ridge coped ashlar stacks, an incomplete plinth, string courses, sillbands, and a coped parapet.
The structure consists of three storeys plus attics and has a six-window range with a curved front on a corner site. The windows are stone mullioned cross casements, with regular fenestration. Three bays feature canted two-storey oriel windows topped with balconies, each culminating in a dormer with a shouldered shaped gable and finial. The two intermediate bays have a four-light window on each floor, flanked by pilasters, and a smaller shaped gable to the dormer.
The right-hand entrance bay includes a tall first-floor window with three lights and double transoms, along with a three-light window on each floor above. Below this, there is an ashlar doorcase with paired Doric columns on pedestals and an entablature inscribed "Leopold Chambers," leading to panelled double doors. The ground floor has continuous late 20th-century shopfronts with ashlar pilasters. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Leopold Chambers receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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