Walker Art Gallery is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. Art gallery. 16 related planning applications.
Walker Art Gallery
- WRENN ID
- little-pilaster-vale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Art gallery
- Address
- Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, L3 8EL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 349 908
- Coordinates
- 53.4101, -2.9797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery built between 1874 and 1877, designed by H. H. Vale. It is constructed of stone, featuring two storeys and thirteen bays. The ground floor is rusticated and includes a Greek key band, with windows that have balustraded aprons and sashes without glazing bars. The end bays project forward and are flanked by flat Corinthian pilasters. The central five bays are highlighted by a giant hexastyle Corinthian portico, behind which three bays are recessed, containing three entrances. The central entrance features an architrave and entablature, with brackets and windows above. The first floor has no windows, but includes fielded panels in the end bays and long relief friezes. There is an entablature and balustrade, with a central raised block that holds a seated statue of Liverpool. Steps lead up to the portico, which is flanked by statues of Raphael and Michelangelo, created by Warrington Wood, and is enclosed by a balustraded wall.
Local climate
Walker Art Gallery 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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