1, Smithdown Road is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Bank, surgery. 1 related planning application.
1, Smithdown Road
- WRENN ID
- outer-grate-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Bank, surgery
- Address
- 1, Smithdown Road, L7 4JB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 369 894
- Coordinates
- 53.39849, -2.94898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located at 1 Smithdown Road, is a bank constructed in the 1890s, now serving as a surgery. It features a stone exterior with a rusticated granite base and has a flat-iron shape. The structure is three storeys tall with a basement and has two bays on each side of a recessed curved corner bay. There are additional one-storey sections with two bays on Earle Road and one bay on Smithdown Road.
Architectural details include cornices at the ground and first floors, a top entablature with a modillioned cornice, and a blocking course. The ground floor showcases round-headed windows supported by two panelled colonnettes and features small-paned casements in the upper parts. The end bay windows are adorned with architraves and triple keystones, while the first-floor windows have eared architraves and triple keystones. The corner window lacks a keystone and has a frieze beneath a projecting cornice. The second floor has architraved windows with keystones, and the corner window features a triple keystone.
The entrance is framed by a granite surround with an eared architrave and a triple keystone, topped with a cyma frieze and cornice, and flanked by paired Tuscan columns that support the entablature. The first floor has paired Ionic columns, and the second floor features paired Composite columns. At the top, there is a cupola with a round drum, small architraved windows, and a cornice.
Local climate
1, Smithdown Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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