Wavertree District Library
WAVERTREE DISTRICT LIBRARY, 244, PICTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072998
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Wavertree District Library
- Statutory Address:
- WAVERTREE DISTRICT LIBRARY, 244, PICTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072998
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wavertree District Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAVERTREE DISTRICT LIBRARY, 244, PICTON ROAD
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAVERTREE DISTRICT LIBRARY, 244, PICTON ROAD
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:
- SJ 38623 89563
Details
SJ 3889 PICTON ROAD (south side) L15
31/900 No 244 (Wavertree District Library) 14.3.75. (formerly listed with piers in front)
G.V. II
Library. 1902-3, Thomas Shelmerdine. Red brick, dressed stone, slate roof. One storey, 3 bays; end bays break forward under gables, central bay recessed over entrance, with shaped gable. Stone quoins and bands to gables modillioned cornice. End bay windows are tripartite with rusticated Ionic colonnettes and antae, entablatures with pulvinated cornices. Diocletian windows above with Gibbs surrounds and triple keys. Gables have flanking scrolls and obelisks. Central entrance with flanking 2-light windows. Rustictated tetrastyle Ionic colonnade with central open pediment. Entrance has architrave with triple key. Balustrade above, and recessed shaped gable with 2-light window with pediment. Windows have sashes and casements with glazing bars. Interior has 3 identical parallel rooms, with 3 iron queen-post roofs with dentils, and a clerestory with dentilled cornice. Plaque to commemorate opening to rear of central room, bronze with enamel.
Listing NGR: SJ3862389563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359244
- 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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