The Old Bridewell Including Boundary Wall Along Streets to South and East is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1980. Police station.
The Old Bridewell Including Boundary Wall Along Streets to South and East
- WRENN ID
- fossil-stone-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1980
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- The Old Bridewell Including Boundary Wall Along Streets to South and East, 17, Argyle Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 346 899
- Coordinates
- 53.40203, -2.98473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bridewell, which includes the boundary wall along the streets to the south and east, is a police station built around 1850. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. It features a stone plinth, a first-floor sill course, a top frieze, and a cornice. The centre bay projects and forms the base of a short tower. The ground floor windows have stone lintels, and all windows are sashed with glazing bars. The entrance, located on the return of the centre bay, has a rusticated architrave with a lion's head keystone and a stone plaque above it. The first-floor windows have architraves, while the tower has two-light windows with round heads, moulded stone arches, and sills. The roofs are hipped, with the tower roof topped by a finial.
The Campbell Street facade also consists of three bays, with the end bays projecting. There are inserted windows with wedge lintels on either side of the central first-floor window. The building has four stacks with stone caps and a later ventilation tower at the rear, which features two-light openings and a machicolated cap. This tower serves as a ventilating shaft for the original windowless cells on the ground floor, which are accessed through an iron door. Surrounding the building on both street fronts is a brick wall approximately 12 feet tall, topped with rounded stone coping. The bevelled corner of the wall is surmounted by a foliated iron lampholder with an anthemion motif, positioned above a plain doorway.
Local climate
The Old Bridewell Including Boundary Wall Along Streets to South and East 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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