Neptune Theatre is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Theatre. 12 related planning applications.

Neptune Theatre

WRENN ID
eastward-bailey-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
Theatre
Address
Neptune Theatre, 85, Hanover Street, L1 3DZ
OS grid reference
SJ 347 901
Coordinates
53.40444, -2.98229
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Neptune Theatre is a building that dates from the early 20th century and serves as both shops and a theatre. It is constructed from stone and brick and stands five storeys tall, including a mezzanine and attic. The facade features six bays with canted corner bays and five bays facing School Lane. The ground floor has been altered, while the mezzanine showcases small-paned casements set between flat pilasters, topped with an entablature. A round-headed window is present on the first floor, and the three upper storeys are made of brick, adorned with carved capitals on flat pilasters. The attic includes round windows decorated with wreaths, and the building is capped with a rich cornice featuring dentils and modillions.

Inside the theatre, located above a music shop, there is a panelled ceiling and walls that feature fluted Ionic pilasters, modillioned cornices, and busts in wreaths and urns above the doors. The lower parts of the walls are panelled in mahogany and include a Greek key frieze. A balcony is supported by fluted Ionic antae, and there is an open well entrance staircase with turned balusters, accompanied by three orders of columns on the right.

Local climate

Neptune Theatre 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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