52 and 54, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. A C18 Office building. 7 related planning applications.
52 and 54, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- twisted-tower-briar
- 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
- 52 and 54, Castle Street, L2 7LQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 342 903
- Coordinates
- 53.40562, -2.9906
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 52 and 54 on Castle Street is an office building dating from the late 18th century that has been altered. It stands four storeys high and features four bays. The building is constructed of ashlar and stucco. The ground floor includes a Greek key band and a dentilled cornice band, with two entrances that have reeded lintels and traceried fanlights. The upper sections are finished in rusticated stucco. On the first floor, there are two large shallow bay windows, each with three lights, flanked by fluted wooden Doric half-columns, and adorned with a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, along with a cornice. The second floor features four sash windows with sills and horizontal glazing bars, topped with a cornice, while the third floor mirrors the second. The building is capped with a top cornice and a small parapet.
Local climate
52 and 54, Castle 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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