Description

SJ 3490 NW EDMUND STREET
L3

48/425 Orleans House
(formerly listed
under Bixteth Street)

14.3.75
G.V. II*

Office building. 1907 (on date stones). Matear and Simon.
Buff brick with stone dressings, granite basement, cast iron
framed windows to some elevations, slate roof. Rectangular
plan with 2 light wells on Earle Street. Edmund Street
facade of 5 storeys, basement and attic 5 window bays
between blank end bays. All windows sashed without glazing
bars, in pairs with cast iron mullions and lintels, those to
ground floor with wedge lintels. Stone panels between
floors. Deep cornice on trighiphs. Gambrel roof with flat
topped dormers. End bays have stone date panels and end in
truncated stacks Bixteth Street elevation of main interest;
Basement and 3 blocks of 5 storeys with attics and 3 bays
connected by blocks of 3 storeys and 2 bays. Cast iron
facade with panelled pilasters, entablatures and decorated
panels undertripartite windows. Attics as Edmund Street
facade similarly treated. Important example of curtain
walling

Listing NGR: SJ3407390798

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Orleans House, Liverpool at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q41354224

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)