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The Three Graces - Liverpool Waterfront.

All Grade II* listed buildings (apart from the nearby modern buildings).

The Three Graces: <a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-214151-royal-liver-building-iron-railings-and-s" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Royal Liver Building</a>, <a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-214150-cunard-building-" rel="noreferrer nofollow">The Cunard Building</a> and <a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-214149-port-of-liverpool-building-and-stone-bal" rel="noreferrer nofollow">The Port of Liverpool Building</a>

SJ 3390 GEORGES PIER HEAD 

   L3

   27/501 Port of Liverpool
   Building and stone
   balustrade,iron gates
   and piers(formerly
   12.7.66. listed as Offices at
   Mersey Docks and
   Harbour Board)

   G.V. II*



   Office building. 1907. Arnold Thornely. Portland tone.
   Basement and 5 storeys, 13 bays wide with canted corner
   bays, ll-bay returns. Rusticated basement ground and 1st
   floor window round-headed, 1st floors, and corner bays.
   2nd, central and 12th bays break forward. Ground floor
   window round-headed, 1st floor windows in eared architraves.
   2nd and 3rd floors recessed behind attached Ionic colonnade
   with entablature and central open pediment containing bulls
   eye and dolphins, at ends round open pediments containing
   attic window. 3rd floor window of 3 lights, with
   colonnettes supporting open segmental pediments, and
   balustraded balconies. 4th floor window of 3 lights with
   colonnettes, centre and end bays have Diocletian windows.
   Attic has round-headed window with projecting panelled
   blocks between. Entrance in tunnel-vaulted recess with
   keystone and pediment, flanked by statues on plinths with
   ships in cornucopias over. End octagonal towers with tall
   glazed drums and coupled Ionic columns supporting domes.
   Central dome on 2-stage drum. 1st stage with Ionic
   colonnade and 4 projecting aedicules containing niches, 2nd
   stage recessed behind balustrade. Copper dome surmounted by
   lantern with 4 aedicules and obelisk. Interior has full
   height octagonal hall with coffered dome. Round-arched
   openings to galleries with iron railings and solid balconies
   with lamp standards to alternate floors. Mosaic paving. 2
   square stone piers opposite the entrance, with dentilled
   cornices and globes with gilded continents; 4 iron gates and
   gate piers. Also stone balustrade across whole front,
   curving from entrance piers, with stone lamp holders on
   ends, and continuing round the whole building with stone
   lamp holders at intervals, in the form of naval monuments
   with draped urns on top. Also iron gates and piers at each
   end of forecourt.



   Listing NGR: SJ3392290208


This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

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Source The Three Graces - Liverpool Waterfront - Port of Liverpool Building
Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location53° 24′ 15.96″ N, 2° 59′ 43.19″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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