Description

SJ 39 SW JAMES STREET
L2

3/670 No. 30
(Albion House)
(formerly listed
as No. 30 White
28.6.52 Star Building)

- II*

Office building. 1896-8. Norman Shaw and J. Francis Doyle
for the White Star Shipping Line. A symmetrical design. 6
storeys of varying heights and attics, 5 bays to James
Street and 3 bays to The Strand. Basement and ground floor
of ashlar with rusticated dressings, the upper storeys brick
banded with stone. Round-arched, concave entrance with
keystone and rusticated columns, broken pediment with window
and iron balcony in tympanum. Windows below the brickwork
are sashed with glazing bars, those above are mostly
casements. 2nd floor windows have iron balconies and
moulded architraves with triple keystones and cornices. 2
floors above with paired windows. Angle turret, and 2
turrets and gable on Strand facade. Corner turrets with
cupola and finials to The Strand flanking large triangular
gable (rebuilt after war damage). Large banded stacks.
Recessed porch behind cast iron gates continues the
rustication and has coffered ceiling.
A dramatic and influential essay in Shaw's polychromatic
manner.

Listing NGR: SJ3411990211

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Albion House, Liverpool at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2639691

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)