9 and 10 Brougham Terrace (Formerly listed as Brougham Terrace)

Two houses forming part of a terrace, built approximately 1830, which later served as part of the Liverpool Muslim Institute and housed a Muslim boarding school for boys and a day school for girls. Both houses were converted for office use in the early twentieth century. At the time of writing (2018), the buildings were undergoing a programme of restoration and conversion to a heritage centre.

Materials and Construction

The buildings are constructed of mellow red brick with a channelled and lined out stucco finish to the front elevation. Yellow and pink-sandstone dressings are employed throughout, with an eaves cornice, shallow parapet, and a slate roof covering with wide brick stacks.

Setting and Plan

The buildings formerly comprised part of a terrace of twelve houses but now stand attached to number 8 Brougham Terrace (separately listed Grade II*) at the south-west end and to an early twentieth-century former cinema at the north-east end.

Internally, each house follows a characteristic plan with an entrance hall positioned along the western side of the ground floor. Two large rooms occupy each floor—one facing front and one facing rear—separated by a staircase set at right angles to the main entrance. The second floors have been substantially subdivided for conversion into student accommodation.

Front Elevation

Both buildings are identically styled on the front (north-west) elevation with a stucco finish incorporating banded rustication to the ground floor. Each house is two bays wide and features a raised ground floor with an entrance doorway to the right, accessed by a short flight of stone steps with ramped cast-iron railings enclosing open wells in front of the basement windows.

Each doorway features a doorcase with a shallow hood supported by carved consoles and a four-panel door with a rectangular overlight above. Number 9 retains its original door with fielded panels; the door to number 10 has been removed for repair. To the left of each doorway is an eight-over-eight sash window (removed for repairs).

Tall six-over-nine windows occupy the first floor (one to number 10 has been replaced, as evidenced by thicker glazing bars), with a plain sill band below. Three-over-six windows exist to the second floor. Affixed to the far left (north-east end) of the elevation, just above the sill band of number 10, is a nineteenth-century painted cast-iron street sign with cutaway corners and relief lettering reading 'BROUGHAM TERRACE'. The roof is concealed by an eaves cornice and parapet. Early twenty-first-century conservation skylights exist to both front and rear roof pitches but cannot be seen from ground level. Chimneystacks rise to both front and rear roof pitches in line with the north-east party wall of each house.

Rear Elevation

At the rear (south-east side), the buildings face onto a large yard area which, at the time of writing, contained a large temporary single-storey classroom and community group block erected for the duration of restoration work along the north-eastern side.

The buildings are constructed of mellow red brick on this elevation with sandstone wedge lintels and sills to the windows. One window opening to the first floor of number 9 has been bricked up; the remainder remain intact although some windows have been removed and are being repaired. Six-over-six and eight-over-eight windows occupy the first floor, with three-over-six windows to the second floor.

A single-bay outrigger exists to the rear of number 10, rising from basement to first-floor level and incorporating a rear doorway on the east side with steps leading down into the yard. The rear doorway on the ground floor of number 9 has steps down into the yard but is now partly hidden by a temporary structure erected to facilitate restoration works. The basements are visible on this elevation, each with a single window and steps down to a doorway.

Interior

An entrance hall runs alongside the south-west wall of the ground floor, with rooms and stairs opening from the north-east side; the hallways' north-east walls have been knocked through into the front and rear rooms. Doorways and arches have been inserted into the party walls on each floor level to interconnect the three buildings.

Painted cast-iron fireplaces survive in some locations, along with plaster arches and plain and decorative cornicing throughout (some original, some replaced in the same or similar style to the original), together with deep moulded skirtings. Some moulded door and window architraves and panelled reveals survive, as do some panelled window shutters. Some floorboard floors remain intact, whilst others have been replaced with tiled and laminate floor coverings. Some walls have had their brickwork exposed and plaster removed as part of the building repair programme.

Timber dog-leg stairs rise between the basement and second floors at the centre of each house, set at right angles to the front doors with turned newel posts, stick balusters, handrails, and cut strings. The stairwells are top-lit and rise to include the attic level of each house; each attic contains two rooms with internal windows onto the stairwell. The attics are accessed via separate timber winder stairs on the second floor.

The second floor has been converted into student accommodation interconnected with number 8, with number 10 subdivided to form bedrooms and shower rooms, and a kitchen and lounge in number 9. The basements are also interconnected and similarly laid out to the upper floors with a room each to the front and rear; the front room of number 10 was in the process of being converted into an ablution area. Stone-flag floors survive in some locations, and nineteenth-century kitchen ranges and coppers remain in varying states of condition.

Many of the buildings' roof timbers are understood to have been replaced due to water damage caused by lead theft from the roof during a period when the buildings were vacant.