Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Office building. 4 related planning applications.
Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society
- WRENN ID
- rooted-tracery-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society, 6 and 8, Castle Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 341 904
- Coordinates
- 53.40666, -2.99149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society is an office building constructed in 1897. It is made of stone and stands six storeys tall, featuring five bays across its façade. The ground floor has modern shop windows, while the first floor includes a modern window with an iron balcony that spans the entire width, flanked by pilasters and a frieze. The second floor showcases windows adorned with keystones, with the three central windows featuring segmental pediments. The third and fourth floors are highlighted by giant Ionic columns that create an applied tetrastyle portico, topped with a segmental pediment that is interrupted by the central window of the attic storey, which, along with two others, has eared architraves and keystones.
Local climate
Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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