George's Dock Ventilation and Central Control Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Ventilation station. 14 related planning applications.
George's Dock Ventilation and Central Control Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-bonework-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Ventilation station
- Address
- George's Dock Ventilation and Central Control Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel, George's Dock Way
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 902
- Coordinates
- 53.40467, -2.99395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The George's Dock Ventilation and Central Control Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel is a ventilation station and offices built between 1925 and 1934, designed by Sir Basil Mott and J. A. Brodie with Herbert J. Rowse as the architect. It was constructed as part of the Mersey Road Tunnel and is made of Portland stone. The building features a rusticated ground floor, with tall recessed windows on the north and south sides that are flanked by relief sculptures. The west facade includes windows in the end bays and entrances, while the central block has an entrance flanked by niches that contain bronze figures. The east facade has three empty niches, and the paved areas to the north and south are bordered by retaining walls, rails, and lamp standards. Additionally, there are two square piers to the north with rusticated bases and banded caps.
Local climate
George's Dock Ventilation and Central Control Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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