Produce Exchange Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. A Modern Office building. 9 related planning applications.
Produce Exchange Buildings
- WRENN ID
- sunken-forge-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1985
- Type
- Office building
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Produce Exchange Buildings, 6a-8, Victoria Street, L2 6QE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 344 904
- Coordinates
- 53.40649, -2.98796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Produce Exchange Buildings is an office building originally designed as a goods warehouse for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, constructed in 1902, possibly by T. Shelmerdine. The building is made of stone with a granite ground floor and stands five storeys tall with attics, featuring seven bays. The ground floor has raised bands and segmental-headed openings adorned with triple keystones. The first bay includes an entrance framed by a Gibbs surround, topped with a bulls eye window and a segmental open pediment. The fifth bay features a round-arched entrance with a round hood.
On the first floor, the windows are arranged in a pattern of 1:3:3:3:1:2:1, with mullions and transoms, and a string course above. The second and third floors are distinguished by an attached Ionic colonnade with an entablature. The second floor also showcases three tripartite bowed windows, supported by colonnettes and topped with an entablature. The building has a mansard roof with pedimented dormers arranged in a 1:3:1-light pattern, situated between a round turret with a colonnade and cupola on the left, and a gable with a round-headed window on the right, which is surmounted by an aedicule featuring niches and rusticated pilasters, along with a segmental open pediment. The building also has tall moulded cross-axial stacks, while the rear facade is more utilitarian.
Local climate
Produce Exchange 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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