Nautilus House is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. Office building. 1 related planning application.
Nautilus House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-steel-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Nautilus House, 10, Rumford Place
- OS grid reference
- SJ 340 906
- Coordinates
- 53.40819, -2.99418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nautilus House is an office building dating from around 1840. It features a stucco ground floor and brick above, with stone dressings and a slate roof. The building is three storeys high and has nine bays. All windows are tripartite sashes with glazing bars on the ground and second floors. The central entrance is rusticated and flanked by pilasters, topped with an entablature. There is a parapet and cornice, with sill bands between the floors. The first-floor windows have marginal glazing bars, with the central window featuring a pediment and the end windows having cornices on brackets. The second floor has ten windows. This building is historically significant as it served as the headquarters of James Dunwoody Bulloch, the Confederate Agent who commissioned the construction of Confederate Cruisers in England, particularly on Merseyside, under the guise of the Southern Cotton Commissioners. The most notable of these ships was the CSS Alabama, making this building effectively the Confederate Embassy in England.
Local climate
Nautilus House 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 — 1 application
- 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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