Warehouse
WAREHOUSE, DUKE STREET LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268259
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- WAREHOUSE, DUKE STREET LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268259
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAREHOUSE, DUKE STREET LANE
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:
- WAREHOUSE, DUKE STREET LANE
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 34586 89952
Details
SJ 3489 DUKE STREET LANE
(east side)
392-/30/10035 Warehouse
II
Warehouse. Unoccupied at time of inspection (05/96). Dated 1863 on hoist housing, but possibly earlier and with minor C20 alterations. Red brick with a slated roof covering. Narrow-bodied warehouse , 5 bays deep,extending eastwards. Front (west) elevation: 3 storeys and attic. Tall gable to street frontage with recessed centre beneath a semi-circular arched head within the gable apex. The recessed area shelters tiered pairs of loading doors and landings supported on cast iron beams. At the arch head, a hoist pulley system housed within a gabled metal canopy which bears the date 1863. Flanking the recess are advanced bays with stacked, barred window openings set beneath shallow segmental arches, and with simple brick sills. The windows diminish in height at the higher floor levels. Doorway to left gives access to internal staircase. INTERIOR: heavy timber beams between the side walls are supported by cast-iron columns. The beams carry closely-spaced floor joists. Metal spiral stair located in north-west corner gives access to all floors. HISTORY: Duke Street Lane is situated close to the site of the first enclosed dock in the world, and within the earliest part of Liverpool to be developed for commercial purposes in relation to the port. The area was fully developed by the 1780's, and the present street pattern was established by 1810. The ongoing development of warehousing as a specialist building type was of particular significance in this area of Liverpool, a C19 port of international significance. The warehousing, of which the Duke Street Lane building is an example, represents one of the most important surviving populations of C19 warehousing nationally, and represents the development of the building type from the late C18 to the early C20. This example is a near-intact example of mid C19 date and displays important developmental characteristics such as the use of cast iron columns for internal support, the recessed loading bay, and the enclosed hoist housing.
Listing NGR: SJ3458689952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462020
- 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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