The Lyceum is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. A 19th Century Club house. 14 related planning applications.
The Lyceum
- WRENN ID
- steep-courtyard-bistre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Club house
- Period
- 19th Century
- Address
- The Lyceum, Bold Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 349 901
- Coordinates
- 53.40448, -2.98067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lyceum is a club house built in 1802 by Thomas Harrison of Chester, originally established to house the first gentlemen's subscription library in England, founded in 1758. The building is constructed of ashlar in a Classical style and was originally one storey, but the roof was raised later to add an additional storey. It features a continuous base, frieze, cornice, and parapet. The central section of the facade has a slight forward projection, with Ionic columns and a pediment that forms a recessed portico containing four entrance doors, which have architraves, cornices, consoles, and six-panel doors. On either side of the portico, there are three-light windows divided by Doric columns that support a modillion cornice, with plain reveals and segmental heads forming blind lunette heads. The facade facing Church Street also has a forward central break, with Ionic columns and a panelled parapet above. It includes five windows, with the outer pair featuring architraves, cornices, and consoles; above the three central windows between the columns are sculptured plaques. The windows were boarded in 1984, and the portico is screened.
Inside, there is a large News Room with contemporary decorations, and a circular library featuring a gallery supported by reeded Doric columns with an iron balustrade and a saucer dome adorned with decorative plaster work.
Local climate
The Lyceum 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- 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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