12, Hanover Street

12, Hanover Street, Liverpool, L1 4AA

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207393
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
12, Hanover Street
Statutory Address:
12, Hanover Street, Liverpool, L1 4AA
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207393
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
12, Hanover Street
Statutory Address 1:
12, Hanover Street, Liverpool, L1 4AA

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
12, Hanover Street, Liverpool, L1 4AA

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 34559 89966

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/01/2018

SJ 3489
30/573

HANOVER STREET, L1
No. 12

(Formerly listed as No 12, (Warehouse Block between Duke Street, Argyle Street and Duke Street Lane)

14.3.75

GV
II
Office and warehouse building. Built after 1888. Red brick, slate roof. Four storeys and basement, and twelve bays to Duke Street, Hanover Street and Paradise Street. Ground floor has round-arched openings with sloping basement windows and ground floor window with coved bases. Brick herring-bone in spandrels. Entrance in eighth bay has small paned fanlight over C20 door. Segmental headed third bay cart entrance. First floor has tripartite windows with colonnettes. Entrance bay has two-storey canted oriel with four-light windows. Iron balcony on large brackets second floor has three-light windows with round relieving arches over. Bracketed sill course on brackets. Top Lombard frieze and balustrading between tall chimneys. Last bay is recessed loading bay with gable and pinnacles. Iron guard rails. Seven-bay utilitarian facade to Duke Street Lane.

Listing NGR: SJ3455989966

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
214238
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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