Oxford Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Commercial buildings. 2 related planning applications.
Oxford Chambers
- WRENN ID
- deep-pediment-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Commercial buildings
- Address
- Oxford Chambers, Abbey Road, LA14 5QR
- OS grid reference
- SD 199 696
- Coordinates
- 54.11667, -3.22608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oxford Chambers is a commercial building located on Abbey Road in Barrow-in-Furness, built around 1875. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features terracotta ornamentation, topped with a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high with an attic and consists of three bays.
The ground floor has been altered and now features a 20th-century shop front situated between original pilasters. On the first floor, there is a sill band that supports tall sash windows set in recessed ashlar surrounds. These windows have decorative lintels made of brick, pointed arches with hoodmoulds, and blue-brick relieving arches. Above, there is a decorative terracotta panel that displays the name 'OXFORD CHAMBERS' in encaustic tiles. The second floor features sill and lintel bands that connect the recessed sashes. The eaves are adorned with compound brick corbelling, and there is a flat-headed roof dormer with ten lights, as well as a truncated end stack on the right side.
Local climate
Oxford Chambers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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- 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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