Department of Employment is a Grade II listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Office. 5 related planning applications.

Department of Employment

WRENN ID
tall-corner-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Holland
Constituency
South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1987
Type
Office
Address
Department of Employment, 2, 4, Spalding Road, Holbeach, PE12 7HG
OS grid reference
TF 356 249
Coordinates
52.80469, 0.01067
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Two houses, dating from around 1800 and later used as offices for the Department of Employment, are constructed of red brick with a hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves, and two chimney stacks. The two-storey, six-bay front is defined by a first-floor band. Each house has four steps leading up to a central doorway featuring a semi-circular head, a painted architrave, a fanlight with radiating spokes, and a recessed panelled door. To either side of each doorway are four larger glazing bar sash windows on the ground floor, and six smaller glazing bar sashes above; all windows have cambered heads and flush wedge painted lintels with keystones.

Local climate

Department of Employment sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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