Lombard Chambers

LOMBARD CHAMBERS, 12, ORMOND STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070598
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Lombard Chambers
Statutory Address:
LOMBARD CHAMBERS, 12, ORMOND STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070598
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Lombard Chambers
Statutory Address 1:
LOMBARD CHAMBERS, 12, ORMOND STREET

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:
LOMBARD CHAMBERS, 12, ORMOND 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 34140 90725

Details

SJ 3490 NW ORMOND STREET L3

48/862 No 12 (Lombard - Chambers)

G.V. II

Office Building. 1860's. Brick with stone dressings. Italian Gothic style. 3 storeys, basement and attic, 5 bays to Bixteth Street and 3-bay return to Ormond Street. Bixteth St. facade: basement and ground floor banded with buff brick, applied pointed arcade has hood mould with stops in the form of twined animals, central arch higher than others. String course canted over central arch. Basement windows have shouldered lintels, ground floor windows have pointed arches. 1st floor pointed attached arcade with stone columns. Segmental-headed windows with brick herringbone tympana. 2nd floor sill band and 2-light windows under pointed relieving arches. Iron centre shafts, and round recesses in tympana. Attic has central gable with window of 5 pointed lights and iron shafts, balcony on brackets with iron railings. Lombard frieze and moulded coping. Flanking 4-light corbelled-out windows. Return facade utilitarian with central entrance with panel over, lettered "LOMBARD CHAMBERS". 2-light mullioned window above, all in decorated architrave with cornice.

Listing NGR: SJ3414090725

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
359203
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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