Midland Sales and Training Centre, Thomas Potterton Limited is a Grade II listed building in the Warwick local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1973. Gas works building. 1 related planning application.
Midland Sales and Training Centre, Thomas Potterton Limited
- WRENN ID
- swift-corner-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warwick
- Constituency
- Warwick and Leamington MP: Matt Western (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1973
- Type
- Gas works building
- Address
- Midland Sales and Training Centre, Thomas Potterton Limited, 86, Saltisford, CV34 4TT
- OS grid reference
- SP 278 653
- Coordinates
- 52.28525, -1.59352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Midland Sales and Training Centre, associated with Thomas Potterton Limited, is a building from 1781 located at No 86 Saltisford. It is listed primarily for its historical significance as an early example of a nearly complete range of buildings constructed for a gas works. The structure features a symmetrical design made of painted Roman cement, with semi-circular-headed window openings and panelled reveals throughout.
The building consists of a single-storey central block flanked by two-storey wings that curve in plan. At each end of the elevation, there are large octagonal pavilions topped with slate roofs, which have simple domical ventilators. The wings include pointed arched glazing bars on the first-floor windows, with two windows on each side. The end pavilions display tall arched panels on each face, featuring a double arched panel within another, complete with imposts on each floor.
There are cornices on the wings and the central block, as well as parapets on the pavilions. The left pavilion has one ground floor window with pointed arched glazing bars. The single-storey central section is rusticated and has a segmental gable above a pair of plain arched windows.
Local climate
Midland Sales and Training Centre, Thomas Potterton Limited receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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