Union Marine Buildings, Original Part by Sir James Picton Only is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1974. Office building. 1 related planning application.

Union Marine Buildings, Original Part by Sir James Picton Only

WRENN ID
hallowed-roof-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 March 1974
Type
Office building
Address
Union Marine Buildings, Original Part by Sir James Picton Only, 11, Dale Street, L2 2SH
OS grid reference
SJ 342 905
Coordinates
53.40757, -2.99029
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Union Marine Buildings, originally designed by Sir James Picton, is an office building completed in 1868. It features ashlar stonework with a granite basement. The facade has six bays, with an additional five bays facing Hackins Hey. The basement is rusticated, while the ground floor includes round-headed windows with keystones and granite panels in between. The entrance is located in the first bay, characterized by a round-headed design with a keystone and a round hood supported by brackets, which displays arms. Above, the first floor has six windows framed by pilastered architraves and a dentilled cornice, beneath shallow balustraded balconies that extend from the round-arched windows on the top floor, which are adorned with columns featuring foliated capitals. The building is capped with a very heavy cornice that has cable moulding and projects over round-arched machicolations, with round-headed attic lights above.

Local climate

Union Marine Buildings, Original Part by Sir James Picton Only 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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