Ventilation Station to 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. 2 related planning applications.
Ventilation Station to the Mersey Road Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- sheer-window-scarlet
- 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
- Ventilation Station to the Mersey Road Tunnel, North John Street, L2 5QY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 343 904
- Coordinates
- 53.40693, -2.98942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ventilation Station to the Mersey Road Tunnel is a Grade II listed structure built between 1925 and 1934, designed by Sir Basil Mott and J.A. Brodie, with Herbert J. Rowse as the architect. Constructed from Portland stone, this large tower-like building emphasizes mass and vertical lines, housing giant ventilating fans. It is set on a massive rectangular base that features windows arranged in vertical bands, adorned with Art Deco ornamentation in horizontal bands above. The tower itself contains a very tall slender blind window, which is flanked by attached reeded columns.
Local climate
Ventilation Station to 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 — 2 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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