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Bedford Street South, LIVERPOOL, L7 7BX

A handsome brick terrace built c1830. It consists of seven three-bay houses, each of three storeys plus basement, their pilastered doorcases approached up short flights of steps flanked by iron railings with fleur-de-lys heads. 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 junction of Canning Street with Bedford Street (left) features this bow-fronted Georgian end terrace.

One of many fine terraces in this part of the city, seen from the junction with Falkner Street.

A grand and uniform Georgian terrace of houses on Canning Street in Liverpool.

A very handsome late-Georgian terrace, 1830s, comprising three-bay houses of three storeys plus basement and aggrandised by Ionic porches. 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).

An example house from this 1830s terrace Image From the listing: "Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys with basement, 3 bays to each house ... Basement lintel band; 1st floor sill band; top frieze cornice and blocking course. Windows have wedge lintels and are sashed with glazing bars. Entrances have Ionic porches; 4-panel doors, some half glazed. Iron railings to areas and steps have decorative heads". Oddly, there is no reference to the cast-iron balcony (Image]). Grade II listed.

Georgian housing seen from Little St. Bride Street.

A stately terrace of three-bay houses built c1830. Two have retained their balconies. 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.

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A rather sumptuous stucco terrace of 6 houses in L8 - a contrast to the usual more austere brick.