Mersey Chambers

MERSEY CHAMBERS, 2, OLD CHURCHYARD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363091
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:
Mersey Chambers
Statutory Address:
MERSEY CHAMBERS, 2, OLD CHURCHYARD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363091
Date first listed:
12-Jul-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
Mersey Chambers
Statutory Address 1:
MERSEY CHAMBERS, 2, OLD CHURCHYARD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MERSEY CHAMBERS, 2, OLD CHURCHYARD

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 34023 90483

Details

SJ 3490 SW OLD CHURCHYARD L2

54/841 No. 2 12.7.66 (Mersey Chambers) (formerly listed under G.V. II Covent Garden) Office building. 1860's. For T & J Harrison. Stone with granite basement and lead roof, yellow brick to rear. 3 storeys with basement and attic, 11 bays. Quoins, sill courses and cornice. All windows are round-headed and sashed without glazing bars. Centre bay breaks forward and has flat pilasters. Ground floor windows have hood moulds with stops carved as animals and birds. Entrance with granite architrave and fanlight, entablature with bracketed frieze over. 2nd floor has 2:3:2:3:2:3:2: windows with colonnettes. Dormers with cross windows, pilasters and architraves, shell hoods over. Centre bay with 3 cross windows surmounted by panel of sailing ship and shell hood over with bronze Liver bird. Central pavilion roof with iron cresting. Rear facade of interest. It has 2 storeys of glass and iron oriel windows in segmental headed recesses. Greek key ornament on sills, and reeded soffits. Top storey has 6 sash windows in stone architraves.

Listing NGR: SJ3402390483

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Legacy System number:
359181
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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