If you've journeyed down Edge Lane, you might have wondered what's behind the brightly painted door of the immaculate kept building at number 115.
But the building built in the 1830s has a much longer and richer history than you might think.
The grade II listed building on Edge Lane, recognisable by its brightly painted front door and red brick exterior, is actually a women's approved premises - one of only six facilities in the country.
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Adelaide House provides residential support and interventions for up to 20 adult women.
It provides support and works with women who have experienced a range of difficulties, including offending behaviour, drugs and alcohol addiction, mental health and victims of domestic violence.
Adelaide House is an independently managed premises, managed by the Board of Trustees of the charity The Liverpool Church of England Council for Social Aid, the Chair of whom is appointed by the Bishop of Liverpool who is the Patron.
But the building and its occupants' history dates back much further.
Information provided on the Adelaide House website says the charity's history dates back to the reign of George IV.
The charity was first founded when Elizabeth Fry - a prison reformer renowned for improving the treatment of prisoners, especially female inmates - visited Liverpool.
The charity, then known as The Lancashire County refuge for the destitute, was founded in 1823.
The charity's name was changed and named in memory of Miss Sarah Adelaide Clarke - a prison warder from Walton Gaol who served as matron of Adelaide House for over 50 years.
The charity's website later adds the 'misdeeds and crimes' of many of the women and young girls in Adelaide House would today seem unbelievable.
'Misdeeds' included being found on the streets wearing no shoes and socks and so being deemed to have no parental care or control.
Many were also committed for looking as though they may be 'intending' to commit an offence.
The staff at Adelaide House were tasked with instilling "wholesome discipline" and "character training" as well as providing care.
Because of this many of the women and young girls who passed through the doors of Adelaide House were moved on into service.
But by the twentieth century, the charity was in need of help to control its spiralling debts and was put under the control of the Board of Trustees at the Church of England Temperance Society.
Following WWII, it became an approved probation hostel for girls and was funded by the Home Office.
The building itself was listed by Historic England in 1975.
And nearly 50 years on, the building has undergone a number of transformations, including an extension to the building to provide better facilities for the residents.
The building continues to accommodate and support adult women over the age of 18.
Adelaide House is now accountable to Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), now part of the Ministry of Justice.
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