• Research

  • Strategies
  • Archaeology
  • Buildings
  • Coastal & Maritime
  • Landscapes & Areas
  • Heritage Science Research
  • Social & Economic Research

  
• Archives & Collections

  • National Monuments Record

  
• Heritage Protection
  • Heritage Protection Reform
  • Heritage Protection Process
  • National Heritage Protection Plan
• Advice

  • Our Planning Role
  • Conservation Principles
  • Government Planning Policy
  • Working with Heritage Organisations
  • Advice by Topic

  
• Publications

  • Guidebooks
  • Informed Conservation

  
• Funding

  • Third Party Investment Principles
  • Other Funding

  
• Training & Skills

  • Training Schemes
  • HELM Training
  • Improving Practice

  

List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: STATE INSURANCE BUILDING

List entry Number: 1068277

Location

STATE INSURANCE BUILDING, 14, DALE STREET

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Liverpool	Metropolitan Authority

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 14-Mar-1975

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

Legacy System Information

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System: LBS

UID: 213992

Asset Groupings

This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information.

List entry Description

Summary of Building

Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.

Reasons for Designation

Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.

History

Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.

Details

SJ 3490 NW DALE STREET SJ 3490 SW (South Side) L2

48/356 No. 14 (State Insurance 53/356 Building)

14.3.75

GV II

Office building. 1906. Aubrey Thomas. Ashlar, 5 storeys, 3 bays. Flamboyant Gothic style. Ground floor of polished granite with stone arches, a narrow ogee arch to office doorway on left, and wide one to right, with spandrels of blind Flamboyant tracery. Stair turret over doorway, with triple-ogee arched canopy over 1st floor window which has cable mouldings and balustraded balcony. 3 storeys of ogee-headed traceried windows above, ending in octagonal top above the eaves line, balustraded. Other 2 bays of 3 storeys, have 2-light windows on 1st and 2nd floors, of 3 lights on 3rd floor with Flamboyant tracery, and top gable with attic lights. 4 slender fluted colonnettes divide the bays. An added canopy over ground floor. Was originally symmetrical about the stair turret. Interior court has glazed barrel vault with traceried ends. Galleries with wooden balustrading on 1st to 3rd floors; ground floor Glazed over. Ground floor interior retains elaborate plaster decoration in panels to ceilings supported on metal columns, and blind arcading with marble detailing, incorporating inset panels with plaster reliefs by Alfred R. Martin. These panels, at least 12 of which survive, depict themes from traditional ballads and tales. Further reliefs depicting castles, including Dacre and Egremont survive in the former entrance hall.



Listing NGR: SJ3429190466

Selected Sources

Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details

National Grid Reference: SJ 34291 90466

Map

This copy shows the entry on 19-Jun-2013 at 09:37:47.