Liberal Club

The Liberal Club, originally a house, was built in the early 1830s for Elizabeth Dacre. It features a facade of calciferous sandstone ashlar, with brick walls elsewhere, a chamfered plinth, a cornice, and a solid parapet. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and includes dormer windows, along with 19th-century brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays, following a double-depth, left-stair plan. There are steps leading up to a central doorway with an overall radial fanlight. Above this doorway is a sash window with glazing bars set in a stone architrave, and a small patterned bowed cast-iron balcony. The flanking full-height bowed bays contain triple sash windows with glazing bars in stone surrounds.

Inside, the club has moulded plaster ceiling cornices with roundels, although false ceilings on the ground floor may hide additional plasterwork. The original staircase features scrolled wrought-iron balusters and a moulded wooden handrail. Many original panelled doors remain, set within panelled reveals that have eared architraves.

Historically, Robert Fell dates the house to around 1840, but it is suggested that Mrs. Dacre moved into this new house after selling her previous one in 1831. According to Brown, Mrs. Dacre constructed three houses in Lowther Street, one of which was designed specifically for entertaining, featuring a large drawing-room that extended from the front to the back.