# Casartelli Building

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The **Casartelli Building**, built in 1760, was a grade II* [listed building](/source/Listed_building) at the meeting of Hanover Street and [Duke Street](/source/Duke_Street,_Liverpool), Liverpool, England. It has now been replaced with a replica.

## History

Its name comes from the Italian Casartelli family, who ran their scientific instrument manufacturing business from the site. It eventually became a wine warehouse before falling into disuse and disrepair.

By October 2000, the condition of the building was so poor that part of it collapsed, prompting the local newspaper, the *[Liverpool Echo](/source/Liverpool_Echo)*, to launch the [Stop the Rot](/source/Stop_the_Rot) conservation campaign, with the Casartelli Building as its symbol of architectural and cultural neglect in the city centre.[1] After months of wrangling between the owners of the building, the [Liverpool City Council](/source/Liverpool_City_Council) and [English Heritage](/source/English_Heritage), on plans for renovation and development of the site, in October 2001 the building was declared unsalvageable due to a rotten wooden beam at the ground floor, which would have required all of the above brickwork to be removed, and the building was dismantled.[2][3]

## Rebuilding

In January 2002, it was announced that an exact replica of the original building was to be constructed on the site, using as many original materials as possible.[4] Construction was completed and the building was officially opened in March 2007 as a successful 31-room apartment hotel called Posh Pads.[5]

## References

1. Jones, Catherine (2005-12-16). ["New Casartelli rises to glory"](https://archive.today/20070704091142/http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/liverpool-campaigns/regeneration-of-liverpool/2005/12/16/new-casartelli-rises-to-glory-100252-16492240/). *Liverpool Echo*. Archived from [the original](http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/liverpool-campaigns/regeneration-of-liverpool/2005/12/16/new-casartelli-rises-to-glory-100252-16492240/) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2007-11-15.

1. David Bell & Mark Jayne (2004). [*City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City*](https://books.google.com/books?id=zpRW5towyzoC&pg=PA117). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-7546-3414-0.

1. [*Planning: For the Natural and Built Environment*](https://books.google.com/books?id=aNpUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA61). Planning Publications. 2001. p. 61.

1. ["Back from the Dead?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080510133338/http://www.downtownliverpool.org/archive/archive_nov05.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.downtownliverpool.org/archive/archive_nov05.htm) on 10 May 2008.

1. ["Posh Pads History"](http://www.posh-pads.co.uk/about/history.aspx)[dead link]

## External links

- [Stop the Rot campaign](http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/campaigns/stoptherot/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20071013132211/http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/campaigns/stoptherot/) 13 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- [Posh Pads at Casartelli](http://www.posh-pads.co.uk/)

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