Marlborough House is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Concert hall, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Marlborough House
- WRENN ID
- far-garret-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Concert hall, shop
- Address
- Marlborough House, 52, Bold Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 349 900
- Coordinates
- 53.40346, -2.97953
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marlborough House is a concert hall that has been converted into a shop. It was built in the early 19th century and remodeled in 1853 by A. H. Holme. The building has two storeys with an attic and features three bays on the Bold Street side and six bays facing Concert Street. The ground floor is rusticated and has large modern shop windows, along with an ornamented cornice and pilastered ends.
On the first floor, there are five windows set in moulded cases, topped with a common dentilled cornice and three curved pediments that have carved tympana. The top of the building is adorned with a richly carved frieze, a dentilled and modillioned cornice, and three sash windows in the attic above the cornice, which features an end scroll leading to a smaller ornamented cornice.
The Concert Street facade includes round arches on the ground floor with mask keystones, and the first floor has windows with a dentilled cornice and round pediments with carved tympana, along with flat balustrading below the sills. The main cornice, top cornice, and attic windows are consistent with the rest of the building. Square chimneys with carved cornices complete the design. The rear facade has a recessed ground floor behind a Tuscan colonnade.
Local climate
Marlborough House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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