Chameleon Commerce House Danehurst is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1973. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.

Chameleon Commerce House Danehurst

WRENN ID
silver-courtyard-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochford
Constituency
Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 July 1973
Type
Commercial
Address
Chameleon Commerce House Danehurst, 37, West Street, SS4 1BE
OS grid reference
TQ 875 905
Coordinates
51.58217, 0.70551
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chameleon Commerce House, formerly a row of houses, is now converted to shops and dates from the 18th century. The building features a plastered brick facade with a red brick left return and a red plain tiled gambrel roof. There is no chimney stack visible from the road. It has two storeys and attics, with four gabled dormers and a four-window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes.

No. 35 has a 19th-century shop window and door to the left, with a three-light shop window to the right. It features end pilasters with brackets that enclose the fascia. The left window and door have arched mouldings above the window heads, with capitals and bases to the window jamb shafts and a moulded cill. There is a fanlight over the door, which has two lower panels. A moulded surround is present to the right, along with a three-light window. A plaque above the fascia reads "Commerce House."

No. 37 has a left two-panel four-light door, pilasters with capitals and bases, a frieze, and a flat canopy, with a small paned vertically sliding sash window to the right. No. 39 features a left small paned door with a moulded surround, a frieze, and a flat canopy, along with a small paned shop window to the right.

Local climate

Chameleon Commerce House Danehurst 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 greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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