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The Georgian Quarter (sometimes known as Canning or the Canning Georgian Quarter) is an area on the eastern edge of Liverpool city centre, England, characterised by almost entirely residential Georgian architecture. Parts of the district are also included in Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter.
Percy Street & Huskisson Street being two of the main streets. But Rodney Street, Duke Street, Mount Pleasant and Abercromby Square are nearby, and Great George Square is the other side of the cathedral to the west are largely lined with Georgian houses. The west side of Abercromby Square, the first built was designed by John Foster Sr. in 1819.
The area was first developed in the late 18th-early 19th century Georgian era. Many of the Georgian houses of the time still survive. Edge Hill was designated a Conservation Area in 1979. Most of the Georgian property around St. Mary's Church is now English Heritage listed. The later terraces, of the Victorian era, have also largely been ...
From 1861, Liverpool banned the construction of back-to-back houses. [3] The last surviving back-to-back court houses are in Pembroke Place, then known as Watkinson Terrace, with just two surviving houses in a former court of eight, now used as a rear shop extension. [5] Historic maps show how the arrangement used to be, compared to the present ...
The city also has a greater number of public sculptures than any other location in the United Kingdom aside from Westminster [7] and more Georgian houses than the city of Bath. [8] This richness of architecture has subsequently seen Liverpool described by English Heritage, as England's finest Victorian city. [9]
Dukes Terrace is an historic terraced house in the English city of Liverpool, Merseyside.A Grade II listed building, [1] the terrace, which includes nine homes, was built in 1843, and is the last of the back-to-back building style in Liverpool. [2]
In the 18th and 19th centuries, as Liverpool expanded the ancient park of Toxteth was gradually urbanised. Large Georgian houses were built in the Canning area, followed in the Victorian era by more grand houses, especially along the tree-lined Prince's Road/Avenue boulevard and around Prince's Park. The district quickly became home to the ...
Sudley House is a historic house in Aigburth, Liverpool, England. Built in 1824 and much modified in the 1880s, it is now a museum and art gallery which contains the collection of George Holt , a shipping-line owner and former resident, in its original setting.