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Latitude: 53.4056 / 53°24'20"N
Longitude: -2.996 / 2°59'45"W
OS Eastings: 333880
OS Northings: 390329
OS Grid: SJ338903
Mapcode National: GBR 71P.X5
Mapcode Global: WH876.YNHJ
Plus Code: 9C5VC243+6H
Entry Name: Royal Liver Building, Iron Railings and Stone Piers Surrounding Royal Liver Building
Listing Date: 12 July 1966
Last Amended: 19 June 1985
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1356370
English Heritage Legacy ID: 214151
Also known as: Royal Liver Assurance Building
ID on this website: 101356370
Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, L3
County: Liverpool
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Liverpool
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Liverpool Our Lady and St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Art Nouveau Office building Art Nouveau architecture
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
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