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The reinforced concrete frame of The Royal Liver Building is faced with granite cladding and was built between 1908-11. It was designed by W. Aubrey Thomas and it is this building that is the most imposing of the Pier Head group of buildings, especially when viewed from the waterfront. The Royal Liver Building has eight storeys and two storeys of attics, it has nine bays and thirteen bay returns. The front façade has four giant buttresses that project outwards and each of these is one bay in width, the middle two of which frame a portico that is semi-circular and is supported with Ionic columns with a balustrade parapet. Above this is a smaller semi-circular projecting window that is decorated with the shield of arms of The City of Liverpool and this also has two Ionic columns. The ground floor and the first floor are rusticated. The windows on the ground floor are round arched and on the first floor are recessed behind a parapet. The windows have mullions and transoms of three lights. The top floor is recessed behind a Doric colonnade, there is a frieze and bracketed cornice and above the attics recede with parapets. The roof has turrets and domes in receding stages the two clock towers are crowned with two copper Liver Birds. The building is listed Grade 1
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