The Seven Storey Warehouse and Offices at Chance's Glassworks is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1978. Warehouse, offices.
The Seven Storey Warehouse and Offices at Chance's Glassworks
- WRENN ID
- salt-lancet-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Smethwick MP: Gurinder Singh Josan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1978
- Type
- Warehouse, offices
- Address
- The Seven Storey Warehouse and Offices at Chance's Glassworks, Spon Lane South
- OS grid reference
- SP 005 897
- Coordinates
- 52.50574, -1.99338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The seven-storey warehouse and offices at Chance's Glassworks were built in 1847. The structure is made of brick and features hipped slate roofs. The main block is L-shaped and has seven storeys. The west wall consists of six bays with windows that have segmental heads. The left bay includes a wide entrance with a glazed round arch. In the end wall of the wing that extends to the east, there is another bay with windows set within blocked doorways, and above this is a timber bellcote. Attached to the south-west corner is a three-storey office with a bowed west end, featuring windows with gauged brick heads. Inside, the west end of the office contains a two-storey hall with a staircase leading off. The ground floor of the warehouse was used for packing and storage of glass and glassware, the second floor for splitting and cutting, while the upper floors were designated for storing cylinders and crates.
Local climate
The Seven Storey Warehouse and Offices at 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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