Former Rural District Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Derby local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1977. Council office.
Former Rural District Council Offices
- WRENN ID
- nether-merlon-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derby
- Constituency
- Derby South MP: Baggy Shanker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1977
- Type
- Council office
- Address
- Former Rural District Council Offices, St Marys Gate, City of Derby
- OS grid reference
- SK 350 364
- Coordinates
- 52.92458, -1.47997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Rural District Council Offices, built around 1910, is a two-storey building designed in the Renaissance style. It features red brick with stone dressings. The central block projects and has five casement windows set within moulded stone architraves, with oval windows above that include keyblocks. The ground floor windows alternate between segmental and triangular pediments, each situated above a pulvinated frieze. The building has quoins at all corners and a central doorway framed by a semi-circular arched rusticated surround. This doorway is accentuated by a Gibbs style rusticated column portico, which is topped with a pulvinated frieze that has a segmental pediment enclosing strapwork cartouche and coat of arms. Additional architectural details include a rusticated plinth, a sill band, a plain frieze, a modillion eaves cornice, and an open balustrade. The wings on either side are set back and each has two windows. The building is part of a group that includes Nos 10, 11, and 11A, the former Rural District Council Offices, No 18, County Hall, and the forecourt wall, gate piers, gates, and railings of County Hall and the Police Station.
Local climate
Former Rural District Council Offices receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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