National and Provincial Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Office building. 13 related planning applications.
National and Provincial Building Society
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- National and Provincial Building Society, 40 and 42, Castle Street, L2 7LA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 342 903
- Coordinates
- 53.40588, -2.99082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National and Provincial Building Society is an office building constructed in 1893, possibly designed by Grayson. It is made of white stone and features four storeys with attics and five bays. The ground floor has been modernized, while the first and second floors showcase three central windows flanked by pilasters and carved panels, along with shallow two-storey oriel windows. Above these, there is a richly carved frieze and an embellished cornice. The top floor has round-arched windows arranged in a 3:5:3 pattern, with the outer windows featuring iron balustraded balconies. At the top, there is a carved parapet adorned with interlaced panels, three gables that include columns, pilasters, tiers of arcading, and figures of tritons as supporters. The central gable displays the Lancaster arms, while the outer gables are topped with pineapple finials.
Local climate
National and Provincial Building Society 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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