Orleans House
ORLEANS HOUSE, EDMUND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1206657
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Orleans House
- Statutory Address:
- ORLEANS HOUSE, EDMUND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1206657
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Orleans House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORLEANS HOUSE, EDMUND 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:
- ORLEANS HOUSE, EDMUND 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 34073 90798
Details
SJ 3490 NW EDMUND STREET L3
48/425 Orleans House (formerly listed under Bixteth Street)
14.3.75 G.V. II*
Office building. 1907 (on date stones). Matear and Simon. Buff brick with stone dressings, granite basement, cast iron framed windows to some elevations, slate roof. Rectangular plan with 2 light wells on Earle Street. Edmund Street facade of 5 storeys, basement and attic 5 window bays between blank end bays. All windows sashed without glazing bars, in pairs with cast iron mullions and lintels, those to ground floor with wedge lintels. Stone panels between floors. Deep cornice on trighiphs. Gambrel roof with flat topped dormers. End bays have stone date panels and end in truncated stacks Bixteth Street elevation of main interest; Basement and 3 blocks of 5 storeys with attics and 3 bays connected by blocks of 3 storeys and 2 bays. Cast iron facade with panelled pilasters, entablatures and decorated panels undertripartite windows. Attics as Edmund Street facade similarly treated. Important example of curtain walling
Listing NGR: SJ3407390798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 214064
- 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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