Director Generals' Building at Former Ordnance Survey Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Southampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1969. Office building. 4 related planning applications.
Director Generals' Building at Former Ordnance Survey Offices
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-solder-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southampton
- Constituency
- Southampton Test MP: Satvir Kaur (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1969
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Director Generals' Building at Former Ordnance Survey Offices, Rockstone Place, City of Southampton, SO15 2EP
- OS grid reference
- SU 420 129
- Coordinates
- 50.91456, -1.40292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Director Generals' Building at the former Ordnance Survey Offices, dating from around 1840, is likely to have been the Governor's House. This corner building features three storeys and a semi-basement. The elevation facing Rockstone Place has three windows, while the Avenue side has four windows. It is adorned with end pilasters that extend the full height of the structure and a dentilled cornice. The windows are sash style, preserving their glazing bars. The ground floor windows are round-headed with arched recessed heads, featuring stuccoed fan decorations in the tympana. There is a central round-headed keyed door opening, framed by a stone doorcase with a shallow moulded cornice hood supported by brackets and pilasters. The central section, which includes the doorway and middle windows, projects slightly forward.
Local climate
Director Generals' Building at Former Ordnance Survey Offices receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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