The White Building is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1992. Offices, shops. 4 related planning applications.
The White Building
- WRENN ID
- watchful-chapel-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Sheffield Central MP: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1992
- Type
- Offices, shops
- Address
- The White Building, 6-12, Fitzalan Square, S1 2AZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 356 874
- Coordinates
- 53.38277, -1.46512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Building is a Grade II listed structure located in Sheffield, built around 1908 by the architectural firm Flockton & Gibbs, featuring relief panels by Tory Bros. The building is faced with white faience and has a red granite plinth. It consists of four storeys plus a five-storey cubic central block and has a five-window range.
The exterior includes a plinth, pilasters, a third-floor sill band, a cornice, and a blocking course. The windows are primarily wooden cross casements. On the first floor, each bay features a cross casement French window flanked by single light windows with transoms, all fronted by a wrought-iron balcony. The French windows are adorned with enriched segmental pediments and roundels. The second floor has two-light mullioned windows flanked by single light windows, all with transoms, and a moulded lintel band. The third floor mirrors the first floor's fenestration, with swept pediments above the French windows. The central block, which has three windows, follows the second floor's design and includes drip moulds above the central windows.
The ground floor is arcaded with plain elliptical arches, featuring a recessed entrance in the center and late 20th-century shopfronts on the outer arches. In the spandrels, there are low-relief panels depicting silversmithing, cutlery making, and other Sheffield trades, along with the monograms "W T F" and "A T H". The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The White Building 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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