3 AND 5, CASTLE STREET
3 AND 5, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205890
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 5, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205890
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 5, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 5, CASTLE 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 5, CASTLE 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 34221 90458
Details
SJ 3490 SW CASTLE STREET (east side) L2 52/214 Nos 3 and 5 15.5.74 G.V. II
Office Building. 1889. Grayson and Ould. Stone and brick with granite to ground floor; slate roof. 5 storeys and attics; 5 bays. Modern shop fronts and entrance with segmental pediment. 1st floor of stone, with 5 segmental arched window divided by fluted half-columns with Composite capitals and with carved spandrels (the centre bay is narrower). 2nd floor and above is all brick with terracotta dressings. Mosaic frieze over 1st floor, with sailing ships and inscription "British & Foreign Marine Insurance Company Ltd". 2nd and 3rd floors with a 2-storeyed oriel at each end, and 5 windows on each floor between (the 2nd floor ones have enriched lintels, the 3rd floor pointed-arched, of 3 orders). Balustraded balcony over 3rd floor, cross windows with Corinthian pilasters and enriched frieze above. Dormers with tiered gables crowned by segmental pediments. Spike finials to outer-bay pyramidal roofs.
Listing NGR: SJ3423090453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213834
- 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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