Liverpool World Heritage Areas

The Liverpool World Heritage Site nomination includes a substantial part of Liverpool's historic waterfront and docks from Bramley Moore Dock in the North to Wapping Dock in the South, its historic commercial office centre from the Pier Head to the Queensway Tunnel entrance, the Cultural Quarter around William Brown Street and the west end of Duke Street from Hanover Street to Slater Street.

It does not include all of the city centre, nor all of the heritage assets in the city, but what it does include is a contiguous area, dominated by historic buildings and structures with a strong link to Liverpool's maritime mercantile heritage.

The Site is divided into six areas of distinctive townscape character which are first described and assessed in general terms. Individual buildings and structures within and adjacent to those areas are then described in more detail.

'The architectural fabric is awesome; the execution marked by an exuberance more New World than Old.' Loyd Grosman, 2005.