Mercury Printing Offices is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1979. Printing office. 7 related planning applications.
Mercury Printing Offices
- WRENN ID
- seventh-storey-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1979
- Type
- Printing office
- Address
- Mercury Printing Offices, 32, Waterloo Street, Weston-Super-Mare, BS23 1LW
- OS grid reference
- ST 320 616
- Coordinates
- 51.34993, -2.97726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mercury Printing Offices, built in 1885 by Hans Price, is a Grade II listed building located at 32 Waterloo Street. It features an exuberant Dutch Baroque style with some Spanish influence evident in its tower. Constructed from Bath stone and modern weatherproofing, the building has two bays. The right bay is 3½ storeys high and includes a shaped gable and multiple pilaster-work, while the left bay is a glazed 2-storey quadrant with mullion and transom windows that connect the Waterloo Street frontage with The Boulevard. The design is highlighted by a four-staged tower with shaped gables, corbelled pilasters, and an arcaded loggia. Notable decorative elements include a balustraded parapet on the quadrant, carved keystones on the second floor of the right bay, herm-pilasters, a gable tip oculus, a shell hood, and a wide-arched entrance with carved details in the spandrels. The building occupies an important position and has a distinctive silhouette that enhances its value.
Local climate
Mercury Printing Offices receives an average of 820 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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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 EPC on record for this property
- 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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