28 AND 30, ARGYLE STREET
28 AND 30, ARGYLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268258
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 28 AND 30, ARGYLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 28 AND 30, ARGYLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268258
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 28 AND 30, ARGYLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 28 AND 30, ARGYLE 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:
- 28 AND 30, ARGYLE 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:
- SJ3462689867
Details
SJ 3489
392-/30/10045
ARGYLE STREET
Nos. 28 and 30
GV
II
Warehouse complex, empty at the time of inspection (5/96). Mid-C19, with one part dated 1884 and with minor C20 alterations. Dark brown brick with stone dressings, coped gable and Welsh slate roof coverings. Linear range of 2 warehouses, both with working access to the street frontage. RANGE TO RIGHT (west): 6 storeys, 3 bays, with gable to street. Central bay with double doors of equal height to each floor, the entry platforms with heavy wooden deck beams to front. Doorway to top floor with cast-iron lintel beam supporting gabled metal hoist canopy (possibly an addition) dated 1884. Flanking the loading bay are stacked window openings, those to the ground floor taller and, like those to the first floor, bricked-up. Windows to floors above are shuttered. Semi-circular headed doorway to ground floor right side leads to internal stair, with small circular lights to floor levels. RANGE TO LEFT (east): 4 storeys, 5 bays, with plain parapet above moulded cornice to street. Bay to right hand end deep semi-circular arched recess extending to third floor, and enclosing double doorways with wooden deck beams to front. Hoist mechanism possibly housed in blind bay to upper floor, above arch head. Small first floor window to right of arch may light staircase. Remaining bays have stacked window openings, diminishing in height to upper floor, with stone sills. Upper 2 floors with simple barred casements. Semi-circular headed doorway with metal-covered door to left side. INTERIORS: not inspected. HISTORY: Argyle Street is situated close to the site of the world's first inland port, and within the area where the first commercial development associated with the port of Liverpool took place. The street pattern here was fully developed by 1810, with warehousing and merchants' houses predominant. The development of purpose -built warehousing is especially significant in the context of Liverpool, a C19 port of international significance. This complex forms part of one of the most important surviving populations of warehouses, and illustrates different types of design and plan on adjacent plots. The complex forms an important group with No. 17 and Nos. 21 and 23 Argyle street (q.v.)
Listing NGR: SJ3462689867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462019
- 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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