Juvenile Court and front wall

Juvenile Court and front wall, Oriel Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075892
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Juvenile Court and front wall
Statutory Address:
Juvenile Court and front wall, Oriel Road
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075892
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Juvenile Court and front wall
Statutory Address 1:
Juvenile Court and front wall, Oriel Road

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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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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:
Juvenile Court and front wall, Oriel 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 34064 94719

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/06/2020

SJ 39 SW
11/20

BOOTLE
ORIEL ROAD (east side)
Juvenile Court and front wall

GV
II
Police courts, now juvenile court. 1890. By C.J. Anderson. Stone with slate roof. Two storeys, ten bays; third bay projects with short tower. Channelled rustication to ground
floor, first floor sill course and Ionic balustrade, top parapet with finials. Windows are mostly sashed, those to ground floor have paired sashes. First floor windows have friezes and cornices, those to fifth and sixth bays with pediments. Elliptical-headed entrance has paired consoles to open pediment over royal arms; paired round-headed windows above. Tower has paired windows with roundel in tympanum; top frieze, pierced parapet and pinnacles. Recessed louvred top with tented pavilion roof clad with lead. Ninth bay has paired first floor windows with pedimented tympanum with Bootle arms and mermaid supporters. Three stacks with moulded caps. Front low wall has granite piers with iron lamp standards, C20 lamps and iron bollards in form of light houses supporting chains.

Listing NGR: SJ3406494719

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
216420
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.

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