Albion House is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. A Victorian Office building. 15 related planning applications.
Albion House
- WRENN ID
- over-corbel-thunder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- Office building
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Albion House, 30, James Street, L2 7PQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 341 902
- Coordinates
- 53.40461, -2.99242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Albion House is an office building constructed between 1896 and 1898 by architects Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle for the White Star Shipping Line. The building features a symmetrical design with six storeys of varying heights and attics, comprising five bays facing James Street and three bays facing The Strand. The basement and ground floor are made of ashlar stone with rusticated dressings, while the upper storeys are brick banded with stone.
The entrance is round-arched and concave, featuring a keystone and rusticated columns, topped with a broken pediment that includes a window and an iron balcony in the tympanum. The windows below the brickwork are sash windows with glazing bars, while those above are mostly casements. The second-floor windows have iron balconies and are adorned with moulded architraves, triple keystones, and cornices. The two upper floors feature paired windows.
The building includes an angle turret, two turrets, and a gable on the Strand facade, with corner turrets topped with a cupola and finials flanking a large triangular gable that was rebuilt after sustaining war damage. There are large banded chimney stacks. A recessed porch behind cast iron gates continues the rustication theme and features a coffered ceiling. Albion House is a dramatic and influential example of Shaw's polychromatic architectural style.
Local climate
Albion 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 15 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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