Midshires Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Bank. 11 related planning applications.
Midshires Building Society
- WRENN ID
- scattered-glass-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Midshires Building Society, 3, Water Street, L2 0RD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 341 904
- Coordinates
- 53.40672, -2.99185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Midshires Building Society is a bank building from the 1860s, located on Water Street. It is constructed of stone and features two storeys, with three bays facing Water Street and five bays on Lower Castle Street. The ground floor is rusticated, with quoins and a dentilled cornice above it. The first-floor windows are topped with pediments, and there are sashed windows above with fixed glazing bars. The building has a top modillioned cornice and a balustraded parapet. On the left side, there is a return with a pilastered doorway and the arms of Manchester and Liverpool above. An inscription on the quoin reads "Victoria Dei Gratia 1883," and the initials "MLDB" are found on the keystone. Above, there is a tripartite window, and the interior is classical in style, featuring swags.
Local climate
Midshires 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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