Liverpool Conservation Area 24

Mount Pleasant



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CONSERVATION AREA 24

Mount Pleasant

The Mount Pleasant Conservation Area is based on a largely Georgian street, and is complementary to the adjoining Rodney Street and Canning Street Conservation Areas. It was first developed in the latter half of the eighteenth century, with elegant houses in spacious grounds as its name suggests overlooking the busy town below. Besides a number of imposing eighteenth and early nineteenth century houses, the street contains several fine institutional buildings including the Irish Centre, formerly the Wellington Rooms which were used as Assembly Rooms by the fashionable Wellington Club, the Victorian Gothic Y.M.C.A., and the Medical Institution which, with its bold curved facade, forms a fitting start to Georgian Hope Street.

Looking down Mount Pleasant win the Wellington Rooms, 1815-16, on the right Looking down Mount Pleasant with the Wellington Rooms, 1815-16, on the right.

Included in the area is the Metropolitan Cathedral and also Abercromby Square, now owned by the University, but formerly the homes of prosperous Liverpool merchants. This is connected to Mount Pleasant itself by a terrace of good Georgian houses in Oxford Street.

The Mount Pleasant Conservation Area was designated on 17 November 1976.
It is considered 'outstanding' in the national context by the Historic Buildings Council.


 
No. 50 Mount Pleasant gate piers


 
No. 50 Mount Pleasant
with classical gate piers
and an unusual pediment


The Medical Institution, 1836, by C. Rampling, curving round the corner of Hope Street and Oxford Street with a fine Ionic colonnade.
Abercromby Square, named after Sir Ralph Abercromby, the general who died fighting the French at Alexandria in 1801.
John Foster the elder planned this area in 1800, but the square and the surrounding streets were not laid out until 1816.

Mount Pleasanr area map YMCA Building
Abercromby Square, named after Sir Ralph Abercromby, the general who died fighting the French at Alexandria in 1801.
John Foster the elder planned this area in 1800, but the square and the surrounding streets were not laid out until 1816.


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Liverpool Conservation Area 6

William Brown Street

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CONSERVATION AREA 6

William Brown Street

St George's Hall St. George's Hall, (a Grade 1 Listed Building), designed by the young architect Harvey Lonsdale Elmes in 1841, and continued after his early death in 1847 by C. R. Cockerell and engineer Sir Robert Rawlinson.



Most of Liverpool's major public buildings are contained within this Conservation Area, and the majority are individually 'listed' for their architectural or historic interest.

These include St. George's Hall, the County Sessions House, the Walker Art Gallery, the Picton Library, the Museum, the original College of Technology, the Wellington Column and the Steble Fountain.

Whilst each is a fine example of classical monumental architecture in its own right, together they form one of the best groups of civic buildings in the country.

Also included in the Conservation Area are Lime Street Chambers, similarly monumental, but Gothic in style, and the Kingsway entrance to the Mersey Tunnel, a splendid 1930s design in stark geometric forms with Egyptian ornamentation.  The whole area is richly provided with statues, monuments and fine street furniture all set within generous civic spaces.

William Brown Street Conservation Area was designated on 3 September 1969.
It is considered 'outstanding' in the national context by the Historic Buildings Council.
The former NW Hotel The former North Western Hotel, Lime Street, built as a 330-room hotel in 1868-71 and designed by Alfred Waterhouse.
The arch of the train shed to the right dates from 1874-9.

The northern shed behind the Hotel is earlier, 1867 by Baker and Stevenson, and when erected had the largest span, 200ft., in the world.


Cast iron lamp
One of the cast iron dolphin lamps (left)
that ring St. George's Plateau.
equestrian statue
The equestrian statue of Queen Victoria on
St. George's Plateau, by Thomas Thorneycroft, 1870
Map of William Brown Street Conservation Area The Sessions House
The Sessions House, 1882-4, by F. and G. Holme, the easternmost building of the Picton Group.


The William Brown Library and Museum, 1857-60, designed by Thomas Allom.  The street and the building are named after the wealthy merchant who financed the construction.

The William Brown Library & Museum
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