FORMER POST OFFICE MAPLE LEAF BOXING CLUB

FORMER POST OFFICE, ORIEL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075888
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER POST OFFICE MAPLE LEAF BOXING CLUB
Statutory Address:: FORMER POST OFFICE, ORIEL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075888
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER POST OFFICE MAPLE LEAF BOXING CLUB
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER POST OFFICE, ORIEL ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: MAPLE LEAF BOXING CLUB, BALLIOL ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER POST OFFICE, ORIEL ROAD
Statutory Address:: MAPLE LEAF BOXING CLUB, BALLIOL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 34063 94692

Details

BOOTLE ORIEL ROAD SJ 39 SW (east side) 11/21 Former Post Office G.V. II Post office, now part of Juvenile court; rear wing now boxing club. 1905. Stone with hipped slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays and canted corner bay, then 14 bays to Balliol Road. End 3 bays break forward with central bay breaking further forward. Ground floor sill course and cornice, banded quoins to forward breaks; 1st floor banded pilastrade with paired pilasters and parapet. Ground floor segmental-headed windows of differing widths have Gibbs surrounds and large triple keystones. Windows have sashes with upper glazing bars, and similar casements. 1st floor windows have architraves, 4th bay round-headed window with Gibbs surround and open pediment. 1st bay entrance has architrave and round window over, with consoled segmental hood. Canted corner bay has round-headed entrance with round hood on Ionic columns. 1st floor is bowed with 3 windows between Tuscan colonnettes, entablature and cupola with obelisk finial. Return has 3 bays similar and ll-bay one-storey wing, rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and bands. Sill course flat, pilasters and cornice and blocking course. Penultimate bay has round-headed entrance with gate leading to courtyard. Gibbs surround and open pediment; flanking windows with grilles.

Listing NGR: SJ3406394692

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Legacy System number:: 216412
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.