Mersey Chambers

Mersey Chambers is an office building constructed in the 1860s for T & J Harrison. It features a stone exterior with a granite basement and a lead roof, while the rear is built of yellow brick. The building has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a total of eleven bays. Architectural details include quoins, sill courses, and a cornice. All windows are round-headed and sashed without glazing bars. The centre bay projects forward and includes flat pilasters. The ground floor windows are adorned with hood moulds that have stops carved as animals and birds. The entrance is framed by a granite architrave and fanlight, with an entablature and bracketed frieze above. The second floor features a pattern of windows arranged as 2:3:2:3:2:3:2, with colonnettes. Dormers are present with cross windows, pilasters, and architraves, topped with shell hoods. The central bay has three cross windows above which is a panel depicting a sailing ship, with a shell hood and a bronze Liver bird above it. The central pavilion roof is decorated with iron cresting. The rear facade is also noteworthy, featuring two storeys of glass and iron oriel windows set in segmental-headed recesses, with Greek key ornamentation on the sills and reeded soffits. The top storey has six sash windows within stone architraves.