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-Sep-1982
List Entry Name:: NAUTILUS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: 6 AND 8, RUMFORD PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292483
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1982
List Entry Name:: NAUTILUS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: 6 AND 8, RUMFORD PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: NAUTILUS HOUSE, 10, RUMFORD PLACE

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 359373
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.