The Temple is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Office building. 5 related planning applications.
The Temple
- WRENN ID
- gilded-tracery-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- The Temple, 22a and 24, Dale Street, L2 5RL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 343 905
- Coordinates
- 53.40769, -2.98902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple is an office building constructed between 1864 and 1865 by J. A. Picton & Son. It is built of stone with a grey granite basement and features a lead roof. The building has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, comprising seven bays with a curved bay at the corner of Princess Street. The central bay projects forward. The basement is rusticated and has projecting 20th-century shop fronts.
On the ground floor, there is an attached Tuscan colonnade with a panelled frieze and cornice, leading to a central round-arched rusticated entrance. A door is cut into the last bay. The first floor features round-arched windows set in aedicules, with pilasters that have carved panels. The second floor has a sill band, with windows that have flat pilasters, entablatures, and strapwork cresting. The mansard roof includes dormers with shell hoods.
The entrance bay has a rusticated first floor with a segmental-headed window surmounted by arms, while the second floor features a round-arched window flanked by paired flat Ionic pilasters. The tower consists of a lower stage with recessed curved corners and an upper octagonal stage, which has round-headed lights with keystones, topped with a lead cupola and finials.
Local climate
The Temple 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 — 5 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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