Central Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Office building. 2 related planning applications.
Central Buildings
- WRENN ID
- little-roof-sparrow
- 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
- Central Buildings, 37-45, North John Street, L2 6RR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 344 903
- Coordinates
- 53.40606, -2.98822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Central Buildings is an office building constructed in the 1870s. It features stone with a polished granite ground floor and stands four storeys tall with a basement. The building has 20 bays, with an 8-bay return to Matthew Street and an 11-bay return to Harrington Street. The ground floor includes a colonnade with an entablature and chamfered corners, featuring large round-arched entrances. The columns are adorned with a bronze band one-third of the way up, which runs across the facade, separating the fully glazed basement and ground floor.
On the first floor, there are round-arched windows arranged in a 2:5:5:2 pattern, complemented by panelled pilasters, a frieze, and a projecting cornice. The second floor has rectangular windows, while the top floor features 12 round-arched windows in the center and four rectangular windows on each side. The top cornice is supported by brackets and includes a blocking course. The facade design continues over four bays of each return, which then transition to more utilitarian white glazed brick facades.
Local climate
Central Buildings 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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