Clarendon Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Former institute.
Clarendon Chambers
- WRENN ID
- scattered-pedestal-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Former institute
- Address
- Clarendon Chambers, 32, Clarendon Street, City of Nottingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 567 403
- Coordinates
- 52.9573, -1.15712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clarendon Chambers is a building comprised of offices and workshops, dated 1853. It was designed by Aicken & Capes of London, with an addition from 1905 and a rear addition dating to circa 1899. The building was restored and converted in the late 20th century. Constructed of red brick and ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs featuring crested ridge tiles, it is designed in a Renaissance Revival style.
The exterior features quoins, a first-floor band, eaves cornices, and shaped coped gables with finials. Windows are largely casements with wooden cross mullions. The building is two storeys in height, with a seven-by-eight-window arrangement. It occupies a corner site and forms an "L" plan, with an elaborate corner pavilion and symmetrical facades, although with some variations. The corner pavilion has two identical fronts. The ground floor is ashlar with rusticated quoins and three round-arched windows featuring keystones. Above this is a canted oriel window beneath a shaped gable. The Clarendon Street front has a central block of three windows, with a central gable. Projecting bays on each side contain single windows. The right bay includes a doorway, and the left bay features a ground-floor window, both with segment-headed arches. To the left is a projecting end bay with single three-light windows. The basement includes a variety of windows, some with stone flush mullions. The addition to the left has three openings on each floor, a coped gable, and a finial. Ground-floor windows are cross-mullioned casements with artificial stone surrounds. The second floor has a larger round-arched central window with voussoirs. The Chaucer Street front mirrors the Clarendon Street front in design, with a central block, gable, and projecting bays. A rear addition, three and four storeys high, forms the west and north sides of a courtyard. A projecting corner block at the east end, four storeys high and three windows wide, has shaped gables and finials.
The interior of the ground floor rooms retains moulded cornices.
Local climate
Clarendon Chambers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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