Melbourne Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Office building. 4 related planning applications.
Melbourne Buildings
- WRENN ID
- veiled-floor-crow
- 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
- Melbourne Buildings, 19 and 21, North John Street, L2 5QU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 343 904
- Coordinates
- 53.40677, -2.98874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Melbourne Buildings is an office building constructed in 1854. It features a stucco exterior and stands five storeys tall with three bays. The ground floor has a central wide depressed arch for the shop window, flanked by round-arched doorways that are rusticated. On the first floor, there is a round-arched rusticated window with keystones. The second floor contains rectangular windows that have enriched flat balconies, with carved lintels and brackets supporting segmental open pediments. The fourth floor showcases oculi set in moulded architraves with keystones, and the central eye is decorated with a laurel wreath. The building is topped with a segmental open pediment that has a keystone and finial. An incised inscription reads "MELBOURNE BUILDINGS/1975/MDCCCLIV". A 20th-century top storey extends cantilevered above the facade.
Local climate
Melbourne 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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