The Richmond

The Richmond is a former office building, originally constructed as tramway offices in 1906 by T. Shelmerdine. It is made of red brick with stone dressings and features a ground floor facing, standing four storeys tall with a basement and a 1930s attic. The building has 13 bays, with the ground floor showcasing channelled rustication. The last nine bays create a symmetrical arrangement around a central bay, which contains a round arched doorway framed by an aedicule with paired rusticated Tuscan columns, a pulvinated frieze, and a broken segmental pediment that displays the arms of Liverpool. Above this doorway is a two-storey canted oriel featuring a mullioned and transomed window. The third floor has a window with a Gibbs surround. The fifth and ninth bays are similar but include paired windows on the ground floor, supported by rusticated colonnettes that hold up a consoled cornice, which in turn supports Portland stone figures flanking the decorated base of the oriels. The other bays have windows with Gibbs surrounds on the upper floors, with pediments on the first floor windows and entablatures on the second floor windows. There is a carriage entrance located in the second and third bays. The building is listed for its group value only.