ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING

ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING, 1-9, NORTH JOHN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1070582
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING
Statutory Address:: ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING, 1-9, NORTH JOHN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1070582
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING, 1-9, NORTH JOHN STREET

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING, 1-9, NORTH JOHN STREET

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 34333 90522

Details

SJ 3490 SW LIVERPOOL NORTH JOHN STREET (east side)

392/52/821 Nos. 1 to 9 (odd) (Royal Insurance Building) 28.6.52

GV II*

Office building. 1903. J. Francis Doyle. Portland stone with grey granite basement and ground floor. 4 storeys with attics and basement. 11 bays, 3 bays to Dale Street. Rusticated basement and ground floor. Round-headed windows with tripartite sashes. 1st floor windows with Gibbs surrounds and iron balconies. 2nd and 3rd floors recessed behind attached Doric colonnade and entablature. Lower dormers with architraves, keystones and alternate segmental and triangular pediments, others flat topped with small paned casements. Tall cross-axial stacks with corners. Entrance bay has round-headed doorway with rusticated Doric columns in antis surmounted by 1st floor round-headed window with rusticated attached portico carrying broken segmental pediment with sculptured figures. Over this a roof with campanile in 3 stages with octagonal cupola and gilded dome. Dale Street facade has 1st floor Venetian window and 2nd floor relief frieze by Allen. 2 turrets with round-arched openings at top surmounted by cupolas and finials flank gable with top window with rusticated Ionic pilasters, entablature and iron balcony. Ground floor hall with richly moulded coffered ceiling. An early use of steel-frame construction.

Listing NGR: SJ3433390522

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Legacy System number:: 359162
Legacy System:: LBS

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