Abbey Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Office and warehouse. 6 related planning applications.
Abbey Buildings
- WRENN ID
- drifting-threshold-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1985
- Type
- Office and warehouse
- Address
- Abbey Buildings, 73-79, Victoria Street, L1 6DE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 346 906
- Coordinates
- 53.40861, -2.98401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Buildings is an office building and warehouse constructed in 1885. It features red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, standing four storeys tall with an attic and five bays. The ground floor has a central pointed arched entrance with a label mould and carved spandrels, flanked by 20th-century shop fronts. On the first floor, there is a central oriel window with a moulded base and a plaque inscribed "ABBEY BUILDINGS." All the windows are of three lights, with mullions and transoms, and include sill courses, label moulds, and fixed glazing, while the oriel has leaded lights. The third floor windows do not have transoms. The building is topped with a central stepped gable featuring a stone lozenge panel, and the flanking gables have small windows with label moulds and stone coping. Each gable is adorned with a stone heraldic beast holding a shield, with the outer beasts displaying the date. The rear warehouse facade consists of six bays, two gables, and two loading bays. The building is listed for its group value only.
Local climate
Abbey Buildings 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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