3-17 Percy Street, Liverpool
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3-17 Percy Street, Liverpool
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 28 Jul 2011
An exceptionally good late-Georgian terrace, c1830, in a neo-Greek style. Stone-faced with projecting ends and centre (adorned at the top with acroteria), between which are Doric colonnades. It's a reminder that despite exhibiting a remarkable uniformity over a relatively long period of time, the Georgian terrace could nonetheless be handled in original ways. The architect is not known. Pevsner discounts John Foster junior for being insufficiently inventive, and posits instead Samuel Rowland or John Cunningham. Grade II* listed. Despite the municipal authorities' inglorious treatment of its Georgian heritage since the war, much remains and happily is being restored and re-used. Liverpool must still be able to boast one of the country's richest stock of Georgian houses, perhaps putting it in the ranks of Bristol, Bath and Edinburgh (and some distance behind London only). At January 2013, a five-bedroomed house in this terrace was on the market for £645,000, an eye-opener to anyone from London.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.397664
Longitude
-2.969684