49 and 49A, Hope Street is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. House.
49 and 49A, Hope Street
- WRENN ID
- rooted-granite-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SJ 355 895
- Coordinates
- 53.39881, -2.97117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
49 and 49A Hope Street is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is built of brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof. The building stands three storeys high with a basement and features four bays, with three bays facing Canning Street. There is a stone lintel band at the basement level and a first-floor sill course at the fourth bay and the Canning Street facade. The top of the building has a frieze, cornice, and blocking course.
The first two bays project outwards, with the second bay being bowed. The windows have wedge lintels and are sashed with glazing bars. The entrance in the third bay projects and is adorned with architraves, angle pilasters, and a cornice. It includes a complete fanlight and a four-panel door, along with plain iron area railings. The return side facing Canning Street has two blind windows on the first and second floors, while the ground floor features casement windows. The entrance to No. 49A is distinguished by Ionic columns and an entablature.
Local climate
49 and 49A, Hope Street 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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