Description

SJ 3490 NW
52/1022

RUMFORD PLACE, L3

Nos. 6 and 8
No. 10 (Nautilus House)

13.9.82

II

Office building. c.1840. Stucco to ground floor and brick
with, exposed above,with stone dressings, slate roof. 3
storeys and 9 bays. All windows are tripartite sashes with
glazing bars on ground and 2nd floors. Central rusticated
cart entrance with pilasters and entablature. Parapet and
cornice, sill bands between floors. 1st floor windows have
marginal glazing bars only, and central window, with
pediment, end windows with cornices on brackets. 2nd floor
has 10 windows. Included for historical reasons as the
headquarters of James Dunwoody Bulloch the Confederate Agent
who commissioned Confederate Cruisers to be built in
England, mainly on Merseyside under the cover of the
Southern Cotton Commissioners. The most famous of these
ships was the CSS Alabama. This building was in effect the
Confederate Embassy in England.

Listing NGR: SJ3400990635

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580493

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas