30, SLATER STREET (See details for further address information)

No. 30 Slater Street is a former watchmaker's works, built around 1850. It is constructed of red brick with cement rendering and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building stands three stories tall with cellars, featuring three bays facing Slater Street and two bays on the right return to Seel Street, where bay two is No. 60 Seel Street.

The Slater Street facade has cemented quoins on the right and a recessed central doorway with a plain over-light set in a rounded architrave. There is a sill band beneath three-light windows that have cast-iron colonnette mullions and architraves below a moulded string course. On the first floor, similar windows flank a single central light, also beneath a string course. The second floor features a sill band under a nine-light window with iron colonnettes, and remnants of four-pane sashes in lights two, three, six, and seven. The roof has an eaves cornice and a hipped right end with truncated brick stacks on the right slope and a similar end stack on the left.

The right return facing Seel Street has two three-light windows on each floor, detailed similarly to the front. A door is located within the ground-floor right window, and the first-floor windows have 16-pane casements. The interior was not inspected. The building was occupied as watchmaker's premises by Richard Shearer and Thomas Russell from 1855 to 1876, and from 1895 it was used as a cash register manufactory. Together with No. 32 Slater Street, these buildings represent the best-known example of workshops associated with watch and clockmaking in the area, with the industry reaching its peak in Liverpool in the mid-19th century.