Gresham Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1992. Commercial. 11 related planning applications.
Gresham Chambers
- WRENN ID
- bitter-fireplace-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West MP: Warinder Juss (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1992
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Gresham Chambers, 6-20, Lichfield Street, City of Wolverhampton, WV1 1DG
- OS grid reference
- SO 914 987
- Coordinates
- 52.58629, -2.12712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gresham Chambers is a terrace of five shops and offices built around 1880 as part of the redevelopment of Lichfield Street. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar and polished granite dressings, and has a tile roof with brick stacks. It is four storeys high and has a seven-window front. The architectural style is a mix of Vernacular Revival and Jacobean elements.
The ground floor has modern shop fronts set between banded granite piers with a cornice above. A drip course runs above most of the second floor. The building is topped with a coped parapet and three gables. There are five two-storey canted oriels on the first and second floors. The first two oriels are joined by a segmental arch, and the central oriel extends upwards as a turret, with a swept copper roof. The windows are double-chamfered-mullioned with transoms; those on the first floor have two transoms, with some double-width lights. The third floor has a six-light mullioned window and six modern casement windows with plain lintels. The brick stacks are banded with diagonal shafts.
The entrance to the upper floors is topped with a Tudor head and a cross-mullioned overlight with cusping.
Local climate
Gresham Chambers receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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