NUMBERS 4 TO 16 CANNING STREET INCLUDING NUMBER 1 PERCY STREET AND NUMBERS 42A AND 42B CATHARINE STREET

1, PERCY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068333
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
NUMBERS 4 TO 16 CANNING STREET INCLUDING NUMBER 1 PERCY STREET AND NUMBERS 42A AND 42B CATHARINE STREET
Statutory Address:
1, PERCY STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068333
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
NUMBERS 4 TO 16 CANNING STREET INCLUDING NUMBER 1 PERCY STREET AND NUMBERS 42A AND 42B CATHARINE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
1, PERCY STREET
Statutory Address 2:
4-16, CANNING STREET
Statutory Address 3:
42A AND 42B, CATHARINE STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
1, PERCY STREET
Statutory Address:
4-16, CANNING STREET
Statutory Address:
42A AND 42B, CATHARINE STREET

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

District:
Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ3564189483

Details

SJ 3589 SE
60/209
28.6.52

CANNING STREET L8
(south side)
Nos 4 to 16 (even)

G.V.
II

Includes No 1 Percy Street and Nos 42A and 42B Catharine St.
Terrace of 8 houses. 1830s. Stone with slate roof, 3 storeys
and basement. 5 bays to each house, 1st 3 and last 4 bays
break forward, last 4 bays form return to No 1 Percy
Street. Rusticated ground floor. Sill bands to 1st and 2nd
floors, top frieze, modillioned cornice and blocking course.
Hipped slate roof, stone chimneys. Windows to 1st floor have
eared architraves, those to entrance bays and end bays have
friezes and cornices, those to entrance bays have consoles.
Most windows are sashed with glazing bars. Entrances have
Ionic porches, those to Nos 4, 6,12 and 14 are paired. Iron
railings to areas and steps have decorative heads. Iron
balconies to 1st floor windows. No 6 has door replaced by
window and is one property with No 4 and No 1 Percy Street.
No 8 has part of balcony missing, as has No 14. No 16 has no
front to balcony. No 1 Percy Street has bowed end bay and
curved angle to right return. 1st floor windows have iron
balconies, that to end bay has consoled cornice.

Listing NGR: SJ3564189483

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
213827
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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