7, Union Street

This house dates from around 1760, with later alterations in the late 19th century and 20th century. It is built of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with ashlar stone dressings, tall brick gable chimneys and a Welsh slate roof. The front elevation is three storeys high, above cellars, and has two bays. A recessed doorway is located on the right side, set within a pedimented surround, and approached by a flight of five stone steps. To the left of the doorway, there are stacked window openings, now fitted with 20th-century joinery, set below flat brick heads and with projecting cills. The windows decrease in height as they rise. There is a shallow eaves cornice. A plain band course runs below the ground-floor window cills, incorporating the heads of the cellar openings, which have boarded shutters. Internally, the entrance hall has a plaster cornice and a half-glazed interior door. The principal rooms on each floor front the street, and retain some 19th-century panelled doors, though fireplaces have been removed or replaced. A plain staircase has boarded covering to the balusters, and a multi-paned window is located on the first-floor landing. The cellar entrance has flanking panelling below the stair, with a two-panel door leading to two side-by-side cellars, including a hearth in the north-east side wall. The building is shown on Perry’s Map of Liverpool in 1769, as part of a developed street frontage, now largely replaced by late 19th and early 20th-century redevelopment. Despite alterations, it is one of the few remaining buildings from this early development period in central Liverpool.