Royal Liver Building, Iron Railings and Stone Piers Surrounding Royal Liver Building
ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, IRON RAILINGS AND STONE PIERS SURROUNDING ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1356370
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Liver Building, Iron Railings and Stone Piers Surrounding Royal Liver Building
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, IRON RAILINGS AND STONE PIERS SURROUNDING ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1356370
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Liver Building, Iron Railings and Stone Piers Surrounding Royal Liver Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, IRON RAILINGS AND STONE PIERS SURROUNDING ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD
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:
- ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, IRON RAILINGS AND STONE PIERS SURROUNDING ROYAL LIVER BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD
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 33880 90329
Details
SJ 3390 GEORGES PIER HEAD L3
27/503 Royal Liver Building Iron railings and stone piers surrounding 12.7.66 Royal Liver Building. (formerly listed under G.V. I Pier Head)
Office building. 1908-10. Aubrey Thomas. Concrete frame with granite cladding. 8 storeys, and 2 storeys of attics. 9 bays, 13-bay returns. Front has 4 giant buttress/projections each of 1 bay width, the middle 2 framing a semi-circular portico of Ionic columns with balustraded parapet; a smaller semi-circular projecting window above with shield of arms and Ionic columns. Ground and 1st floors rusticated. Ground floor has round-arched windows. Upper floors to 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th bays recessed behind parapet and scrolls. Windows with mullions and transoms of 3 lights. Those to projecting bays with transom only. Those to 5th and 6th floors in round headed recesses with balconies. Top floor recessed behind Doric colonnade. Frieze and bracketed cornice. Receding attics with parapets. Roof piled up with turrets and domes in receding stages. Clock towers with copper liver birds on top. Iron railings and stone piers all round at base. One of the 1st multi-storey concrete framed buildings in the world.
Listing NGR: SJ3388090329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 214151
- 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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