1 Water Street and 2 Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Shop. 9 related planning applications.
1 Water Street and 2 Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- broken-gallery-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 1 Water Street and 2 Castle Street, L2 0NA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 341 904
- Coordinates
- 53.40673, -2.99162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 Water Street and 2 Castle Street is a shop built in 1882 for goldsmith Robert Jones. The building features banded stone with granite facing and a red tiled roof. It has four storeys and an attic, with one bay facing Castle Street and four bays facing Water Street. The ground floor includes rectangular wooden bays with copper glazing bars. The design incorporates Renaissance details, with panelled pilasters beside each first-floor window, wrought iron balconies flanking the second-floor windows, and stone balconies. The third floor is designed as a colonnade, featuring round-headed lights in each bay and recesses in between, along with iron balconies. The building is topped with a rich cornice, varied dormers, and large panelled stacks.
Local climate
1 Water Street and 2 Castle Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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