Merseyside Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum is a Grade I listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. A C19 Warehouse, museum. 14 related planning applications.
Merseyside Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum
- WRENN ID
- worn-flue-auburn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Warehouse, museum
- Address
- Merseyside Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, L3 4AQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 898
- Coordinates
- 53.40127, -2.99294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Merseyside Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum is a Grade I listed former warehouse located at the east end of the north side of Albert Dock, built between 1841 and 1845 by J Hartley. The structure features an iron frame and brick with stone dressings, topped with an iron-clad roof. It stands five storeys tall and measures 17 by 9 bays. The building includes quoins and a parapet, with the dock facade having a ground floor that is recessed behind a Doric colonnade made of iron columns above granite rubble. The windows are segmental-headed. Albert Dock is recognized as one of the earliest enclosed docks in the world and serves as a complete example of this type.
Local climate
Merseyside Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum 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 — 14 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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