Pelican Works is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Industrial.
Pelican Works
- WRENN ID
- tall-balcony-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Pelican Works, 45, Great Hampton Street B18
- OS grid reference
- SP 062 881
- Coordinates
- 52.49079, -1.9095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pelican Works is a two-storey building dating from around 1860 to 1870, designed in a palazzo style. It features a seven-bay front made of red brick with stucco dressings. The ground floor has a central arched entrance framed heavily, with an entablature that supports a blind balustrade above the entrance, leading to the upper window. On either side, there are three-bay arcades set on a black brick plinth. The first floor contains sash windows, each with segmental stucco keyed arches and panels beneath the sill course. The building has a bracketed eaves cornice with a parapet, which includes intermittent openwork panels and a central blocking course inscribed with "Pelican Works," topped by a pelican with outspread wings. The right-hand return to Hockley Street features four similar window bays and a long, three-storey range of shops with segmental arched iron frame windows on sill bands, along with a brick dentil eaves cornice. At the far end of this range, there is a segmental waggon arch.
Local climate
Pelican Works receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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