Tower Building is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. A Early Modern Office building. 8 related planning applications.
Tower Building
- WRENN ID
- waiting-joist-wind
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Office building
- Period
- Early Modern
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 3490 SW WATER STREET (north side) L2
7/1337 No. 22 (Tower Building) 14.3.75. G.V. II*
Includes 1-11 (odd) Tower Gardens. Office Building with shopping arcade. 1906. Aubrey Thomas. 5 storeys and atics; 3 bays and curved corner bays, 9 bays to the Strand of 8 storeys. Steel frame with grey granite and white faience cladding, granite ground floor. Bays divided by polygonal turrets. All windows have mullions and are of 5:4:5 lights, those to ground floor with a 1st floor oriel bay and balcony over a double portal of round arches. Cornice and balustrade, balustrades to attics with scrolls. Strand facade similar, centre and end bays with full-height canted oriels over round-headed arches, that to left leading to Tower Gardens, that to centre leading to arcade, segmental headed 3-light windows. Recessed top storey with parapet. End tower of 2 storeys, coner turrets and parapet, centre tower octagonal of 3 storeys, corner turrers. One of the 1st steel framed buildings in the country.
Listing NGR: SJ3399590439
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