Liverpool Conservation Areas 11 & 17uu

Ogden Close & Princes Road

GARDEN ESTATES

Millbank, Muirhead Avenue, Hunts Cross Avenue & Newenham Crescent

As a result of the virtual cessation of house building in Liverpool during World War 1, the City's housing programme had to be considerably accelerated during the inter-war period. The major part of this programme was carried out under the direction of Sir Lancelot Keay, the Director of Housing and later City Architect. As a reaction to the nineteenth century slums and following the ideas of nineteenth and early twentieth century social reformers, he laid out a series of well planned municipal estates along the length of the newly created Queens Drive on the outskirts of the City. The buildings are neo-Georgian in style, carefully detailed and well proportioned, and, though of necessity, standardised in plan, sufficient variety in layout and housing design has been introduced to avoid monotony. The estates are also notable for the careful integration of landscape and buildings, and are amongst the best municipal housing of this date in the country. Five of the best schemes are designated Conservation Areas, each displaying different aspects of layout, landscaping and detail design. Ogden Close, Mill Bank, Muirhead Avenue and Hunts Cross Avenue Conservation Areas were designated on 4 August 1971, Newenham Crescent Conservation Area on 22 December 1971.

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

Picton, in 'Memorials of Liverpool', 1873 describes Jesse Hartley's dock walls: 'his walls are built with rough Cyclopean masses, the face dressed, but otherwise shapeless as from the quarry, cemented with hydraulic lime of a consistency as hard as the granite itself. The Canning Graving Docks are two dry docks built in 1765 and enlarged in 1813 and 1842, and are the oldest section of the dock system to survive, as other early docks such as Salthouse (1734) and Canning (1753) were considerably altered in the nineteenth century.

The Albert Dock warehouses and the Dock Traffic Office are two of Liverpool's nine Grade I Listed Buildings. The Dock Traffic Office was designed by Philip Hardwicke in 1846, with a top storey added in 1848 by Jesse Hartley. The pediment and portico of giant Tuscan columns is built entirely of cast iron.

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

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

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

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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.

Liverpool Conservation Area 6 William Brown Street Introduction & Contents
CONSERVATION AREA 6 William Brown Street 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 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. One of the cast iron dolphin lamps (left) that ring St. George's Plateau. The equestrian statue of Queen Victoria on St. George's Plateau, by Thomas Thorneycroft, 1870
		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.
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