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Mount Pleasant, LIVERPOOL, L3 5SL

Once, no doubt, a corner shop, now catering for the needs of Liverpool's sizeable student population.

Three houses, each of three bays, and each with an arched doorcase framed by fluted Doric columns (Image'>Image), and wrought-iron balconies. As usual the familiar local motif of painted wedge lintels is also in evidence. These will have been built between the early 1780s, when the street was first laid out, and the 1820s. Grade II listed. Comparison of the near and middle house demonstrates the malignant effect on the Georgian proportions of replacing the original windows with Victorian plate glass. I think these were in various institutional uses.

Doorcase of one of the houses seen here: Image The large arched fanlight, plain in this case, fluted columns and entablature are typical of many on the street.

Viewed from Rodney Street, across the junction with Mount Pleasant.

Peeping over the chimneys to the left, the crown of Liverpool's Roman Catholic cathedral.

The same street corner as in Image but looking up Mount Pleasant instead.

Built as the Consumption Hospital in 1903-04 to designs of Grayson & Ould. Brick and terracotta. Loosely neo-Georgian but with various Edwardian fripperies and some Ipswich windows on the Rodney Street front. Now part of Liverpool John Moores University.

A pair of doorcases with fluted columns and plain fanlights approached up a sweep of steps. Wider view: Image

Late C18th/early C19th houses clearly composed of several distinct groups. Pretty much all three storey and two bays but with some variation in height. The nearest have paired doorcases (Image]). Grade II listed. Mostly now in use as hotels, including Aachen.

Attractive paired doorcases with Doric columns, open pediments and radial fanlights. Wider view: Image