Nautilus House
6 AND 8, RUMFORD PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292483
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Nautilus House
- Statutory Address:
- 6 AND 8, RUMFORD PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292483
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Nautilus House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6 AND 8, RUMFORD PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- NAUTILUS HOUSE, 10, RUMFORD PLACE
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:
- 6 AND 8, RUMFORD PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- NAUTILUS HOUSE, 10, RUMFORD PLACE
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 34008 90612
Details
SJ 3490 NW
52/1022
RUMFORD PLACE, L3
Nos. 6 and 8
No. 10 (Nautilus House)
13.9.82
II
Office building. c.1840. Stucco to ground floor and brick
with, exposed above,with stone dressings, slate roof. 3
storeys and 9 bays. All windows are tripartite sashes with
glazing bars on ground and 2nd floors. Central rusticated
cart entrance with pilasters and entablature. Parapet and
cornice, sill bands between floors. 1st floor windows have
marginal glazing bars only, and central window, with
pediment, end windows with cornices on brackets. 2nd floor
has 10 windows. Included for historical reasons as the
headquarters of James Dunwoody Bulloch the Confederate Agent
who commissioned Confederate Cruisers to be built in
England, mainly on Merseyside under the cover of the
Southern Cotton Commissioners. The most famous of these
ships was the CSS Alabama. This building was in effect the
Confederate Embassy in England.
Listing NGR: SJ3400990635
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359373
- 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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