Halifax Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. Building society. 1 related planning application.
Halifax Building Society
- WRENN ID
- twisted-cinder-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Building society
- Address
- Halifax Building Society, 105, Commercial Road, City of Portsmouth, PO1 1BQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 641 003
- Coordinates
- 50.7996, -1.09122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Halifax Building Society is a building society located on Commercial Road in Landport, Portsmouth, constructed around 1900 to 1920. It is designed in the Baroque style, featuring a combination of Portland stone and granite, with a concealed roof. The structure has three storeys and five bays.
The ground floor is made of polished granite and is defined by horizontal rusticated piers. On both the left and right sides, there is an eight-panelled door flanked by banded pilasters, with heavy brackets supporting a cornice and a bowed stone parapet above. The central section features three large recessed casement windows, with a frieze and cornice running across them.
On the first floor, there are five recessed sash windows, each with an architrave and keystone. The windows alternate between scrolled open and triangular pediments, all set within heavy horizontal banded rustication that includes an egg-and-dart band at the heads of the windows.
The second floor has rusticated outer bays with flanking Doric pilasters, while the central bay is flanked by Doric attached columns. It contains five sash windows, with the central three framed by Doric columns, a frieze, and a cornice. The outer sash windows are each set in a Gibbs surround with a keystone and cornice above. The building is topped with an entablature featuring a modillion cornice and a parapet with balusters, which are divided by piers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Halifax Building Society receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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