Fowler's Buildings is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1974. Office building. 4 related planning applications.

Fowler's Buildings

WRENN ID
knotted-fireplace-fern
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1974
Type
Office building
Address
Fowler's Buildings, 3-9, Victoria Street, L2 6QE
OS grid reference
SJ 343 904
Coordinates
53.40684, -2.98841
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fowler's Buildings is an office building located on Victoria Street, dated 1866 and 1869, designed by J. A. Picton. It stands three storeys high with a basement and features nine bays. The rusticated basement has segmental-headed shop windows, while the upper part is made of stone, showcasing eight granite Tuscan columns on the ground floor, a frieze and cornice, and segmental-headed windows with decorative pediment-shaped mouldings. The top floor includes round-arched windows with sills supported by brackets. A heavy top cornice with brackets and dentils culminates in a central segmental pediment.

Adjacent to the office building is a warehouse that faces Temple Lane, which is part of the same architectural scheme but is simpler in design. This warehouse has a typical facade with five storeys and a basement, featuring fourteen bays and two stacks of loading doors. A notable internal feature of both sections is the cast iron arch-braced roof trusses.

Local climate

Fowler's 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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