Queen's Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. A Victorian Shops and offices. 3 related planning applications.
Queen's Chambers
- WRENN ID
- brooding-spandrel-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Constituency
- Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1972
- Type
- Shops and offices
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Queen's Chambers, 25 and 26, Long Row, City of Nottingham, NG1 2DR
- OS grid reference
- SK 572 399
- Coordinates
- 52.9539, -1.14975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Queen's Chambers, located on Long Row in Nottingham, is a Grade II listed building that was constructed in 1897 by architect Watson Fothergill for E.W. Skipwith. This building, which also includes Nos. 1-7 King Street, showcases the Gothic Revival style and features red brick with ashlar and terracotta dressings.
The design includes jettied timber-framed gables adorned with bargeboards and a renewed plain tile roof supported by three large side wall stacks. The windows are primarily cross casements with stone mullions and tracery, while the attics have simpler wooden windows. The structure rises three to four storeys plus attics and consists of two sections with six bays each.
Prominently situated on a corner, the building is highlighted by an octagonal tourelle topped with a spire and lucarnes. The Long Row facade features a ground floor colonnade with granite piers and updated shopfronts. Above, there are two windows on each floor, three of which are oriels, and two gables at the top. The King Street facade has a central entrance bay with traceried windows and a crenellated tower. To the left, there is a plain bay with pairs of windows and a hipped attic dormer. Further left is the corner block with renewed shopfronts and a central three-storey oriel window beneath a gable. To the right, a double bay features renewed shopfronts, two two-storey oriel windows, and double gables.
Queen's Chambers is considered an outstanding example of Fothergill's architectural work, incorporating design elements influenced by architects Burges and Shaw. The building underwent restoration in 1992.
Local climate
Queen's 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 — 3 applications
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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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