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Latitude: 53.4022 / 53°24'8"N
Longitude: -2.9802 / 2°58'48"W
OS Eastings: 334928
OS Northings: 389938
OS Grid: SJ349899
Mapcode National: GBR 75Q.BC
Mapcode Global: WH877.6R34
Plus Code: 9C5VC229+VW
Entry Name: 30, SLATER STREET (See details for further address information)
Listing Date: 23 May 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1252870
English Heritage Legacy ID: 435977
ID on this website: 101252870
Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, L1
County: Liverpool
Electoral Ward/Division: Riverside
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Liverpool
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Liverpool Our Lady and St Nicholas
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
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SJ 3489 SLATER STREET
(west side)
30/1323
No 30 including No 60
Seel Street
GV II
Former watchmaker's works, unoccupied at time of survey. c1850. Red brick with
cement rendering and dressings. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys with cellars; 3 bays
to Slater Street, 2 bays to Seel Street on right return (bay 2 being No 60 Seel
Street). Slater Street facade: cemented quoins on right; recessed central doorway
with plain over-light in rounded architrave. Sill band to 3-light windows having
cast-iron colonnette mullions and architraves beneath moulded string course.
1st floor: similar windows flanking single central light beneath string course.
2nd Floor: sill band to 9-light window with iron colonnettes and remains of 4-pane
sashes to lights 2, 3, 6 and 7. Eaves cornice; hipped right end to roof having
truncated brick stacks on right slope and similar end stack on left. Right return
facing Seel Street has two 3-light windows to each floor and is detailed as front.
Door within ground-floor right window; 1st floor windows have 16-pane casements.
Interior not inspected. Occupied from 1855-1876 as watchmaker's premises by Richard
Shearer and Thomas Russell; from 1895 used as a cash register manufactory. Together
with No 32 Slater Street (qv) the buildings form the best known example, in this
area, of workshops associated with watch and clockmaking; the industry reached its
peak in Liverpool in the mid Cl9.
Listing NGR: SJ3492889938
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