Cunard Building is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1966. Office building. 44 related planning applications.
Cunard Building
- WRENN ID
- distant-timber-myrtle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1966
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Cunard Building, Georges Pier Head, L3 1QL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 339 902
- Coordinates
- 53.40514, -2.99538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cunard Building is an office building constructed between 1913 and 1916 by architects Willink and Thicknesse. It is made of Portland stone and consists of six storeys with nine bays on the main facade and 17-bay returns. The ground floor features rustication and is battered, with round-headed windows, while the central bay projects to form the entrance, adorned with carved animals as finials. The second floor has windows with stone balustraded balconies, and the third floor windows are topped with cornices on brackets. Above the fourth floor is a frieze, and the top floor is decorated with shields and drapery between the windows, along with a moulded frieze on modillions. The building has a plain top parapet, and the other facades are treated similarly. Additionally, there are two simple bronze lamp holders at the entrances.
Local climate
Cunard Building 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 — 44 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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