48 and 50, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Office building. 6 related planning applications.
48 and 50, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-copper-starling
- 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
- 48 and 50, Castle Street, L2 7LQ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 342 903
- Coordinates
- 53.40572, -2.99068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building comprises the offices at 48 and 50 Castle Street. It was constructed in 1864, designed by Picton, and is built of ashlar. The building is three storeys high with a basement, and four bays wide. The basement and ground floor have granite Doric columns on pedestals, with arches between them. Steps ascend to the side doorways, while steps descend to the basement office. A cornice sits above the ground floor. The first floor features round arches with a hollow chamfer, cable mouldings, relief busts in the tympana, Corinthian pilasters, and rectangular casements, all fitted with large-paned modern glazing. The top floor has four windows in rectangular architraves with shoulders and pediments. A deep, consoled frieze sits above a cornice, with gable stacks rising from the roof.
Local climate
48 and 50, Castle Street 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 — 21 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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