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Windsor Street, LIVERPOOL, L8 1XE

Seen from Upper Hill street junction and looking towards the Anglican Cathedral.

The eye is led along the broad Windsor Street as we look straight down it from the top of the cathedral tower past the densely tree-covered southeast corner of the churchyard.

Built in 1900-02 by Corporation Surveyor, Thomas Shelmerdine, whose libraries and other public buildings are dotted around the city like little nuggets of treasure. Most, as here, are in orangey-red brick with stone dressings. Grade II listed.

Early C19th houses, that on the corner of Windsor Street, no. 40, grander than the others which are mostly two-storey. Ionic porches predominate. 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 3 little children in the picture are throwing stones at the 1st floor windows in the hope of breaking them. But by the sound of the stones hitting the "glass" it sounded plastic to me. So maybe the owner got fed up with replacing them.

Handsome early C19th houses, each of three bays and three storeys plus basement, and an Ionic doorcase (no. 66 has a porch). No. 64 is stuccoed and pilastered. 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 stuccoed early C19th house with an arched Doric doorcase. The second-floor central window is oddly off-centre. Grade II listed. In the past it has served as a nursery and a hospital, but now converted to flats. 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 departure from the usual early C19th Liverpool template - each of two main storeys, they subtly decrease in grandeur from right to left (pediment and architraves --> no pediment and architraves --> neither). The entrances subside similarly - no. 70 has a handsome Ionic affair (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.