Navigation House is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Navigation House
- WRENN ID
- stony-latch-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Navigation House, 23 and 25, Commercial Road
- OS grid reference
- SO 829 183
- Coordinates
- 51.86364, -2.24955
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Navigation House is a building located on Commercial Road in Gloucester, constructed in 1848 for a ships' chandler. It has been altered in the 20th century and is currently used as offices. The structure is made of brick with the front faced in ashlar and features a hipped slate roof with a brick stack.
The building is two storeys high, with a two-storey basement at the rear. The front is symmetrical, with a doorway at each end framed by pilasters that have banded rustication and moulded imposts. These support an entablature at the first-floor level, which is adorned with a cornice held up by consoles above the outer pilasters. The former opening between the doorways was modified in 1985 to include a matching central pilaster and a sash window with glazing bars (3x4 panes) on either side. Each doorway has a rectangular fanlight with margin-pane glazing and panelled doors.
On the first floor, there are raised and chamfered quoins at the outer corners and a crowning entablature. Two sash windows with glazing bars (3x4 panes) are set in openings that have projecting sills. Additionally, there is a tall, semicircular arched sash window with glazing bars in the center of the east wall, which lights the stairwell. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Navigation House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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