Double Range of Warehouses Immediately West of Hartley Bridge, Chance's Glassworks is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1978. Warehouses. 7 related planning applications.

Double Range of Warehouses Immediately West of Hartley Bridge, Chance's Glassworks

WRENN ID
under-balcony-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sandwell
Constituency
Smethwick MP: Gurinder Singh Josan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 July 1978
Type
Warehouses
Address
Double Range of Warehouses Immediately West of Hartley Bridge, Chance's Glassworks, Spon Lane South, B66 1NZ
OS grid reference
SP 003 897
Coordinates
52.50579, -1.99562
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a double range of warehouses located immediately west of Hartley Bridge, part of Chance's Glassworks, built around 1840 to 1852. The warehouses are constructed of brick and feature hipped slate roofs. They are arranged in two blocks connected by a lower section that previously housed a causting plant. The south side, which faces the Birmingham Level of the Birmingham Canal, consists of three storeys above a battered brick base. The western block has 12 bays with windows that have segmental heads, while the eastern block has 15 bays. In the seventh bay of the eastern block, there is a blocked opening with a round head on the lower storey, and the first floor window of the right-hand bay is also blocked. Hartley Bridge adjoins the structure on the right. Inside, the floors are supported by timber beams and a central row of cast iron columns, and the roofs feature bolted queen-post trusses.

Local climate

Double Range of Warehouses Immediately West of Hartley Bridge, Chance's Glassworks receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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