Former Grant's Department Store is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. Department store. 7 related planning applications.
Former Grant's Department Store
- WRENN ID
- cold-copper-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon West MP: Sarah Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Department store
- Address
- Former Grant's Department Store, 14, 16 and 18, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 323 654
- Coordinates
- 51.37314, -0.10047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Grant's Department Store, built in 1894 by Metcalfe and Jones for Grant Brothers, is a notable four-storey building with attics located on the west side of Croydon High Street. It features a red brick construction with grey brick diapering and extensive stone dressings. The facade is symmetrical with seven bays. The ground floor has a modern shop front that obscures the fascia, and semi-octagonal attached columns at the ends and on either side of the central bay. Similar columns define the other bays but project from corbels.
On the first floor, there are three pairs of windows with four-centred arches beneath flat stone entablatures, flanking two narrow central windows that feature a decorative panel with the initials 'GB'. Above this, decorative lettering reads: 'MILLINERY/RIBBONS - LONDON HOUSE - LACE/GLOVES - SILKS/DRESSES - LONDON HOUSE - MANTLES/LINENS'. The bays above these windows are arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern on either side of a projecting canted oriel, all adorned with stone dressings.
The cornice above the third floor is decorated with leaves and panels. The central oriel is topped with a turret featuring an ogee cap and octagonal pillars that project above the parapet, supporting heraldic beasts. A further tower rises one storey higher at the back, complete with an open decorated parapet.
Local climate
Former Grant's Department Store sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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