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Catharine Street, LIVERPOOL, L8 7NE

Example of the Ionic porches of this group (Image]). The columns here are fluted, which is not the norm.

Nos. 44-50 have Ionic porches and date from c1840. No. 52 lacks a porch and its different proportions suggest a slightly earlier date. Grade II listed.

A pair of dignified houses dated c1830, each of five bays, making them larger than most of their neighbours, and possessing an Ionic porch. 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.

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.

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.

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.)

More modest houses than the three storeys prevalent in surrounding streets. Built c1844. Grade II listed.

An early C19th terrace, stuccoed in contrast to the bare brick predominant elsewhere in the area. No. 30, at the near corner with Percy Street, is stylistically different with pilasters and quoins. 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 church, built in 1829-30 to the design of Samuel Rowland, is graced by a very impressive hexastyle Ionic portico. "The best surviving Neoclassical church in the city". Grade II* listed. Good cast-iron railings and piers with pedimented caps. Grade II listed.