Queen Insurance Building is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1974. Office block.
Queen Insurance Building
- WRENN ID
- kindled-cupola-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1974
- Type
- Office block
- Address
- Queen Insurance Building, 13, Castle Street, L2 4FW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 342 904
- Coordinates
- 53.40666, -2.99083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Queen Insurance Building is an office block constructed in the 1880s. It features a combination of brick and dressed stone, with a granite ground floor and a slate roof. The building stands four storeys tall and includes small dormers, measuring five bays wide.
On the ground floor, there are three wide, four-centred arches with keystones. The right arch is filled with a modern shop, while the left and centre arches serve as an arcade entrance leading to Queen Avenue, adorned with decorated iron tympana. The first floor showcases cross windows that are separated by Corinthian pilasters, topped with a low relief frieze. The second floor has similar windows, but with shallow cusping in their heads and Ionic half-columns between them, along with a plain frieze and cornice above. The top floor features a depressed frieze and a larger dentilled cornice at the top, with dormers on the mansard roof.
Local climate
Queen Insurance Building 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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