The Radisson RED Liverpool Hotel is a historic building in
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
, England. It is located on the east side of
Lime Street, fronting
Lime Street railway station. Opened in 1871 as the North Western Hotel, it more recently served as office space and student accommodation. It was restored as a hotel from 2018 to 2022. The building is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England
The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, a ...
as a designated Grade II
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.
History
Opened as a railway hotel in 1871 by the
London and North Western Railway the hotel served
Lime Street railway station. The design was by
Alfred Waterhouse, containing 330 rooms. The hotel closed in 1933, subsequently becoming Lime Street Chambers for a while before closing once again. In 1994 the building was bought by
John Moores University
Liverpool John Moores University (abbreviated LJMU) is a public university, public research university in the city of Liverpool, England. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, established in 1823. This lat ...
and, at a cost of £6 million, was converted into a hall of residence for students, opening in 1996. It was announced on 28 September 2018 that the building would be restored as a hotel by the Marcus Worthington Group at a cost of £30m, to be called the Radisson RED Liverpool Hotel.
The hotel is set to open in December 2022.
Architecture
The building is constructed in stone with a
slate roof in the
Renaissance Revival
Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ...
style resembling a French château. The
baroque details are in the
Second Empire Second Empire may refer to:
* Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783
* Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396)
* Second French Empire (1852–1870)
** Second Empire architecture, an architectural styl ...
style, common for this time period. It has five storeys, a basement and an attic, and is in 21
bays. The end bays and the bays flanking the three-bay centre are carried up into towers. The central entrance is round-arched, and is flanked by
Doric columns.
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See also
* Grade II listed buildings in Liverpool-L1
References
External links
Radisson RED Liverpool Hotel official website
{{Liverpool B&S
Liverpool John Moores University halls of residence
Grade II listed buildings in Liverpool
Alfred Waterhouse buildings
Railway hotels in England
Grade II listed hotels
Radisson Hotels
Hotel buildings completed in 1871
Hotels established in 1871
Hotels established in 2022