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Rodney Street, LIVERPOOL, L1 9JF

This street connects Hardman Street with the Anglican Cathedral. It is the location of The Pilgrim public house.

A dignified late C18th house, a peculiarity on this well-preserved street, the highlight of the city's Georgian Quarter, as it is more or less detached and stands well back from the street. An early development, it was laid out in 1783-84 by William Roscoe and others. It is peppered with good details including many good doorcase. Grade II listed. Liverpool's Georgian quarter was laid out by John Foster senior, the Corporation Surveyor, in 1800. He established an attractive network of wide streets which were later filled with handsome brick terraces, mainly of three-storey houses of two or three bays with doorcases of varying styles and windows with painted wedge lintels. Cavalier treatment of the area by the city council for many decades, resulting in the demolition of many listed Georgian buildings, some of which were owned by the council itself, has been reversed over the last decade or so, and Liverpool can still boast one of the most outstanding arrays of Georgian buildings anywhere in the country.

The tomb is said to contain the body of a gambler who sold his soul to the devil and when dead and buried the devil would come for his soul but to thwart the devil when he died he was put in this tomb sitting up by a card table.

An example of the street's splendid array of Georgian doorcases, in this case from this terrace Image The large arched fanlight, fluted columns and entablature are typical of many on the street. The fanlight is particularly pretty. The frankly OTT pedimented porch is late C19th.

Number 35 Rodney Street, dating from 1783 - 1784, plaque on the wall states this was the first house to be erected on Rodney Street on a site leased by William Roscoe.

A trio of particularly substantial houses on this well-preserved street, the highlight of the city's Georgian Quarter, "all the more enjoyable for the constant fidgeting of the building lines". An early development, it was laid out in 1783-84 by William Roscoe and others. It is peppered with good details including many good doorcases (e.g. Image], Image]). Grade II listed. Liverpool's Georgian quarter was laid out by John Foster senior, the Corporation Surveyor, in 1800. He established an attractive network of wide streets which were later filled with handsome brick terraces, mainly of three-storey houses of two or three bays with doorcases of varying styles and windows with painted wedge lintels. Cavalier treatment of the area by the city council for many decades, resulting in the demolition of many listed Georgian buildings, some of which were owned by the council itself, has been reversed over the last decade or so, and Liverpool can still boast one of the most outstanding arrays of Georgian buildings anywhere in the country.

Handsome pedimented doorcase with a frieze of swags and urns. Part of this terrace: Image

An example of the street's splendid array of Georgian doorcases, in this case from this terrace Image The large arched fanlight, fluted columns and entablature are typical of many on the street.

Very handsome Ionic doorcases with pediments and friezes enriched with swags and urns.