Cunard Building

CUNARD BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1052283
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:
Cunard Building
Statutory Address:
CUNARD BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1052283
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Cunard Building
Statutory Address 1:
CUNARD BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CUNARD BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 33923 90273

Details

SJ 3390 GEORGES PIER HEAD L3 27/502 Cunard Building 12.7.66 (formerly listed under Pier Head) G.V. II*

Office building. 1913-16. Willink and Thicknesse. Portland stone and 6 storeys. 9 bays, 17-bay returns. Ground floor and end bays with rustication. Ground floor battered with round-headed windows the centre bay projecting for the entrance, with carved animals as finials. 2nd floor windows have stone balustraded balconies. 3rd floor windows have cornices on brackets. Frieze above 4th floor. Top floor enriched with shields and drapery between windows, moulded frieze on modillions. Plain top parapet. Other facades similarly treated. 2 simple bronze lamp holders at entrances.

Listing NGR: SJ3392390273

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Legacy System number:
214150
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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