ORIEL CHAMBERS

ORIEL CHAMBERS, 14 AND 16, WATER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1291943
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: ORIEL CHAMBERS
Statutory Address:: ORIEL CHAMBERS, 14 AND 16, WATER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1291943
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: ORIEL CHAMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: ORIEL CHAMBERS, 14 AND 16, WATER STREET
Statutory Address 2:: ORIEL CHAMBERS, ORIEL CLOSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ORIEL CHAMBERS, 14 AND 16, WATER STREET
Statutory Address:: ORIEL CHAMBERS, ORIEL CLOSE

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 34067 90429

Details

SJ 3490 SW WATER STREET (north side) L2

52/1336 Nos. 14 and 16 (Oriel Chambers) (formerly listed 12.7.66 as Oriel Chambers)

G.V. I

Includes Oriel Close. Office building, 1864. P. Ellis. 4 storeys with basement,7 bays,and 12 bays to Covent Garden. Cast iron frame with stone cladding. Shafts rise from ground floor and end in pinnacles projecting above parapet. Tall openings with nailhead moulding and shafts contain 3 canted oriels with stone bases and iron glazed windows tripartite windows with canted heads above. 5th bay has entrance with stone plaque and octagonal window above. Label-moulded parapet and 3-bay central shaped gable with Jacobean finial. Gable contains date panel, octagonal window and arms above Covent Garden facade similarly treated. Entrance in 1st bay to Oriel Close. Rear elevation has continuous oriels to storeys, cantilevered out from frame and canted at top and bottom. A pioneering building in the use of expressed cast iron construction.

Listing NGR: SJ3406790429

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Legacy System number:: 359719
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.