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
Country: England
Date first listed: 15 May 1974
Type: Office block
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SJ 3490 CASTLE STREET (east side) L2

52/215 No. 13 (Queen 15.5.74 Insurance Building)

G.V. II

Office block. 1880's. Brick, dressed stone, with granite ground floor and slate roof. 4 storeys and small dormers. 5 bays wide. Ground floor has 3 wide 4-centred arches with keystones. Right arch filled with modern shop, left and centre arches are arcade entrance with decorated iron tympana to Queen Avenue (q.v.). 1st floor has cross windows divided by Corinthian pilasters; low relief frieze above. 2nd floor has similar windows but with shallow cusping in heads, and Ionic half-columns between; plain frieze and cornice above. Top floor has depressed frieze, and a larger dentilled cornice on top. Dormers on mansard roof.

Listing NGR: SJ4184786818

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