105, Duke Street is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Public library/offices. 5 related planning applications.
105, Duke Street
- WRENN ID
- lunar-lintel-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Public library/offices
- Address
- 105, Duke Street, L1 5JQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 348 898
- Coordinates
- 53.40163, -2.98077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 105 Duke Street is a building originally constructed as the Union Newsroom and later served as Liverpool's first public library from 1852 to 1860. Built in 1800 by John Foster the Elder, it features ashlar stonework and consists of two storeys and a basement. The Duke Street facade has five bays, with the ground floor displaying four round-headed windows. The leftmost bay is occupied by a later porch, and part of a westward extension is not included in this listing. The building has a cornice and a stringcourse. Above the ground floor, there are five fixed windows on a sill band and five panels above, topped with a cornice and parapet. The Slater Street facade features a central pediment, a Venetian window on the first floor supported by Ionic columns, and three round-headed windows on the ground floor.
Local climate
105, Duke Street 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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