Britannia Pavilion and the Colonnades, Albert Dock is a Grade I listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. A Victorian Warehouse. 52 related planning applications.
Britannia Pavilion and the Colonnades, Albert Dock
- WRENN ID
- little-string-rain
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Warehouse
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Britannia Pavilion and the Colonnades, Albert Dock, L3 4AB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 895
- Coordinates
- 53.39903, -2.99324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Britannia Pavilion and The Colonnades, formerly known as Warehouse B and C, are located at Albert Dock and were built between 1841 and 1845 by architect J Hartley. These former warehouses are constructed with an iron frame and brick, featuring stone dressings and an iron-clad roof. The building has five storeys and is designed in an L-shape, with 47 bays facing Gower Street, where the first four bays are recessed. The west facade has 55 bays, including three recesses of nine by five bays. The dock-facing facade features a recessed ground floor supported by a Doric colonnade made of iron columns, with two granite columns at the corners, above a granite rubble dock wall. The building is adorned with quoins and a top parapet, and it has segmental-headed windows. There are two entrances on Gower Street, each flanked by granite gate piers. Albert Dock is recognized as one of the earliest enclosed docks in the world and serves as a complete example of this architectural type.
Local climate
Britannia Pavilion and the Colonnades, Albert Dock 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.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 52 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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