Customs Depot is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Depot.

Customs Depot

WRENN ID
young-timber-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 June 1985
Type
Depot
Address
Customs Depot, Sefton Street
OS grid reference
SJ 349 880
Coordinates
53.38569, -2.9796
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Customs Depot, built in 1890, is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed from common brick and featuring red brick dressings, topped with a slate roof. It has two bays and a first-floor sill band. The windows are segmental headed with brick cambered arches and are sashed with glazing bars, while the attic includes gabled dormers. The central entrance is round-headed and features a doorcase and a complete fanlight.

Local climate

Customs Depot 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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