Listed building or place reference: HE1159 Historic site reference Property Liberty Wharf Road name La Route de la Liberation Parish St. Helier LocationView on map Grade Listed Building Grade 2 Category Industrial building Statement of significance A complex of Victorian and Edwardian commercial and industrial buildings and structures, including former slaughterhouses, sea wall, piggeries, screen walls, Cattle Inspector’s House, Harbour Office, Merchants’ Room / Offices and Gentlemen’s Latrine, and former Railway Terminus, retaining historic character and some original features. Context n/a External Description A complex of buildings, now refurbished as a shopping precinct, containing remains of former early C19 slaughterhouses and section of sea wall, late C19 slaughterhouse hall, covered walkways and depot for imported cattle, piggeries, screen walls, Albert House (former Cattle Inspector’s House), Harbour Office, Merchants’ Room / Offices and Gentlemen’s Latrine, and former Railway Terminus. Buildings fronting Liberation Square - 1901 Railway Terminus designed by Adolphus Curry. 2-storey, 6-bays divided into 3 pairs with side wings breaking forward. Side wings have large window openings at ground level and pairs of sash windows with cambered heads at first floor level. Ground floor masonry and dressings are in Jersey granite, otherwise grey Guernsey granite. North façade: 3-bays with pedimented central bay breaking through the eaves line and decorative projecting features at eaves level and over central doorway. 1913 Merchants’ Room/Offices and Gentlemen’s Latrine built to the south of the Railway Terminus: 2-storey, 4-bay, the right hand half breaking forward slightly. Round-headed door and window openings are in Jersey granite, otherwise masonry is Guernsey granite. 1829-35 Slaughterhouses: single-storey block of rooms each with window and door facing Les Ecuries du Port. Granite rubble with ashlar window dressings. Rendered SE façade with modern drinking fountain. Former granite rubble, battered, sea wall (now breached) forms the south-west wall of the slaughterhouses. Buildings fronting La Route de la Liberation - 1863 Harbour Office designed by Thomas Gallichan: 2-storey, 5-bays to the south-west, 3-bays to the south-east. Guernsey granite with Jersey granite dressings, round-headed windows with prominent keystones, hipped slate roof, projecting granite porches to south-west and south-east. 1901 screen wall between Harbour Office and Albert House: Guernsey granite with Jersey granite dressings. Triple round-headed windows and pedimented, arched entrance forming matching pair with gateway to the west of Albert House. New arched entrance added C21. 1900 Albert House (formerly Cattle Inspector’s House): 2-storey with attic dormers and ridge parallel to road. Central projecting porch, ground floor bay window to west with triple light above, gabled element to east with first floor Venetian window, gable chimneys. Guernsey granite with Jersey granite dressings. Complements the Queen Anne style of the screen wall to the west. 2-storey wing to the rear. 1888 Screen Wall: 3 Dutch gables, a leitmotif of the Queen Anne style, with large oculi (lighting the lairage/cattle depot). Guernsey granite, Jersey granite dressings. 1888 depot for imported cattle designed by H G Hammond Spencer and E Berteau. Lairage/Cattle Depot: 3-bays divided by arcaded, brick, spine walls and expressed by gables to the exterior, slate roofs (9-bays long). 1898 Piggeries to the west of Lairage/Cattle Depot: lean-to brick buildings flanking central covered way. Iron framed roof on cast iron columns, with Corinthian capitals and decorative trusses, built into brick walls. Slate and glazed roofs. Each of 6 bays contained accommodation for 8 pigs with central door flanked by sash windows. 1893/4 Screen Wall to the west and north-west of Lairage/Cattle Depot designed in a similar manner to the earlier screen walls to the south. Dwarf wall along the south frontage of the screen walls with cast-iron railings and granite gateposts. Fragment of WWII German Gun Emplacement (Resistance Nest Richtfeuer) built within curving perimeter wall at west end of site - steel loophole with ball mounting for machine gun – structure to rear demolished. Modern extensions and alterations have no architectural or historical interest. Internal Description Interior refurbished as multiple shops. Retains some historic features including granite paving and gutters, sliding metal cage doors on rails, iron tether rings, covered walkway to the north with timber trussed roof with chamfered collar ties, boarded soffit and continuous glazed ridge lantern, and piggeries with iron framed roof on cast iron columns with Corinthian capitals and decorative trusses. 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