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Bedford Street South, LIVERPOOL, L7 7BY

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.

A handsome terrace built c1830, the three houses at each end projecting. Each house has an Ionic portico. 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.

Two good 1830s houses associated with a terrace round the corner in Canning Street. Each has an Ionic porch and iron railings. 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.

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

The junction of Canning Street with Bedford Street (left) features this bow-fronted Georgian end terrace.

Access street south of Canning Street. Setts have been reinstated (or restored?). The purple of Liverpool's bins goes some way to compensating for their inherent ugliness.

Built between 1835 and 1845, and named after George Canning, briefly Prime Minister in 1827, the street is now dominated by the later Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool, the official name of Liverpool Cathedral.

A handsome late-Georgian terrace, 1830s, comprising three-bay houses of three storeys plus basement, and aggrandised by Ionic porches and ornate cast-iron balconies (Image]). The terrace is punctuated by two broad pediments. 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).

The richly-decorated cast-iron balconies of this Georgian terrace include acanthus leaves (either side of the S-shaped forms). Full view here: Image (The location is approximate.)