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: LIME STREET CHAMBERS (FORMER NORTH WESTERN HOTEL)
List entry Number: 1084209
Location
LIME STREET CHAMBERS (FORMER NORTH WESTERN HOTEL), LIME STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
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| Liverpool | Metropolitan Authority | |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 28-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 359021
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SJ 3590 SW LIME STREET
L1
54/687 Lime Street Chambers
28.6.52 (Former North Western
Hotel)
G.V. II
Hotel, now offices.
A.Waterhouse for London North Western Railway.
French Renaissance style. Stone. Slate roof. 5 storeys
with basement and attic, 21 bays. End bays and bays
flanking 3-bay centre project and are carried up into
towers. Ground floor has round headed windows with
bracketed sills and moulded arches. Entrance is round-
arched on Doric columns, with flanking window; carved
spandrels. 1st floor windows have balconies, the 3 central
windows behind Doric colonnade supporting 2 statues. 1st to
3rd floor windows in round arched recesses. End bays have
2-storey oriels with decorated bases and pierced parapets.
4th floor has wide sill band, balconies to windows, which
have panels between. Bracketed cornice and stone dormers.
End bays have windows of 3 round-headed lights with cornice
and dormer above; centre bay the same. Towers flanking the
centre of 2 storeys and finials with flanking stacks. End
bay towers have steep pavilion roofs with cresting and
flanking stacks; similar towers to rear. 12 cross-axial
stacks. Area railings and stone piers. Return to Lord
Nelson Street has 8-light continuous windows between blank
end bays. Pointed arched entrance and window under round
relieving arch. Right-hand return similar with 1-storey
projecting block which has raised end bays with pavilion
roofs.
Interior: Entrance hall with granite columns and fireplace.
Rectangular glazed lean-to-extension has iron balusters.
Buffet has coffered ceiling supported by 2 rows of
Corinthian columns. End fireplace with pier glass over.
Listing NGR: SJ3500990495
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National Grid Reference: SJ 35035 90608
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