Cotton Exchange Building is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Office building. 29 related planning applications.
Cotton Exchange Building
- WRENN ID
- scarred-ashlar-alder
- 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
- Cotton Exchange Building, Old Hall Street, L3 9LQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 907
- Coordinates
- 53.4094, -2.99286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cotton Exchange Building is an office building constructed in 1906 by architects Matear and Simon. It features seven storeys and has a facade with 21 bays. The ground floor is made of heavily rusticated stone, with windows that include keystones and sash windows with glazing bars. The upper sections are adorned with pilasters, reeded bands, wreaths, and festoons, all designed to appear very light and delicate. The central brick bay contains three sash windows on each floor, flanked by ten iron and glass bays on either side. The return side facing Bixteth Street has nine bays and follows a similar style, featuring iron window frames and iron lintels, but is finished with stone facing.
Local climate
Cotton Exchange 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 29 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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