Description

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SJ 3490 SE LIVERPOOL COLLEGE LANE

392- /53/10029 Nos. 20 AND 22
Pair of Warehouses

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A pair of former warehouses, now offices, workshops and stores. Early to mid C19, with late
C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick, rendered on side elevations, and originally roofed in
Welsh slate, laid to diminishing courses, now replaced on No. 22 by profiled sheeting. Narrow
plan form, with tall gables facing the street. FRONT: 3 storeys and attics above a semi
basement. Each gable with a tier of double doorways to the centre, the cill beam of each
opening forming the lintel of the opening below. Above the uppermost doorway, in the gable
apex, a projecting hoist beam. Flanking the second and third floor doorways, on the outer
corners are small, unglazed oval openings with iron grilles; on the inner bays are 2-light
windows, beneath shallow segmental arches. No. 20 has plain, vertically-planked doors set
between plain timber jambs, to 3 upper floors, and a widened or inserted double doorway to
the ground floor, beneath a metal beam. Door opening with metal railed door below oval lights
may denote stair position. No.22 has a remodelled ground floor, with C19 shop front detailing
below second floor doorway, including fascia with console brackets and cornice. Below this to
the left, a 2-panel door, with tall 12 pane light above. To the centre, a tall 3 light glazed
opening infills the former double doorway above street level. To the right, a modified 2-light
window, now with C20 joinery. Low double doorway below central glazed opening. To the
right, entrance to passage which passes under No. 22 gives access to narrow rear courtyard with
single storeyed workshop range to north side. Interiors not inspected. These warehouses
represent early small-scale examples of the distinctive narrow-bodied warehouses built in the
vicinity of the inland dock developed by Thomas Steers between 1709 and 1721, (now Canning
Place), and to the rear of the massive riverside dock developments between 1824 and 1860.
They are the industrial vernacular of this part of Liverpool, and contrast in scale and form with
the architecture of the grander riverside docks.

Listing NGR: SJ3466290102

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544824

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)