Journal Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Former office. 1 related planning application.
Journal Chambers
- WRENN ID
- western-wicket-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Former office
- Address
- Journal Chambers, 28 and 30, Pelham Street, City of Nottingham, NG1 2EG
- OS grid reference
- SK 574 399
- Coordinates
- 52.95356, -1.14633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Journal Chambers, located at 28 and 30 Pelham Street in Nottingham, was built in 1860 by R.C. Clarke of Nottingham. Originally serving as the offices for the Nottingham Journal, it has since been converted into shops and offices. The building is designed in the Gothic Revival style, featuring red brick with ashlar and polychrome brick dressings, topped with a plain tile roof.
Architectural details include enriched sill bands and a bracketed cornice. The structure rises three storeys plus attics and has a four-window range of pointed arched two-light windows with shafts and polychrome heads. Above these are eight smaller single windows with an impost band, and further up, there are four steeply gabled wooden dormers with cusped two-light windows.
The ground floor showcases a type of shop front with crazy paving floors and sloping display fronts, a style that was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s but is now becoming increasingly rare.
Additionally, there is a plaque on the first floor commemorating Sir James Barrie, who worked in this building from 1883 to 1884.
Local climate
Journal Chambers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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