The Albany Building

Old Hall Street, Liverpool - Grade II Listed

1 & 2 bedroomed self-catering apartments availiable for short term rental

The Albany was built as speculative offices by Richard Naylor, a wealthy banker and Liverpool philanthropist, and designed by J.K. Culling, who then went on to design the National Portrait Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square. It combines three storeys of cellular offices with basement shops and warehousing. Adopting the form of an Italian palazzo, with a central courtyard, in style it is free Renaissance. But it is given special distinction by highly individual ornamentation based on Calling's passion for naturalistic plant forms and foliated decoration. Natural light is admitted to the building via top-lit glazed corridors. The building was much used by cotton brokers for whom the courtyard served as a meeting place, whilst the quality of light in the offices provided good conditions for the examination of cotton samples.

 

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