Lime Street Station is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Railway station. 37 related planning applications.
Lime Street Station
- WRENN ID
- patient-terrace-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- Lime Street Station, Skelhorne Street, L1 1JF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 351 904
- Coordinates
- 53.40717, -2.97732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lime Street Station is a railway shed and facade that began construction in 1867 by Francis Stevenson and William Baker, with an extension added to the south between 1874 and 1879. The original section features a long glass roof with a graceful curve, spanning 219 feet and supported by double Doric columns made of iron. The later section is supported by square piers and has a span of 186 feet. The facade facing Lime Street is constructed of stone, featuring a Tuscan pilaster, round-arched openings with architraves and keystones. The entrance on Skelhorne Street includes Tuscan columns with dosserets and arch braces that support a cornice, which may have been designed by Foster in 1836.
Local climate
Lime Street Station 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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- Related listed building consents — 37 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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