Garswood

GARSWOOD, 8, BARKFIELD LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075895
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Garswood
Statutory Address:
GARSWOOD, 8, BARKFIELD LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075895
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Garswood
Statutory Address 1:
GARSWOOD, 8, BARKFIELD LANE

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GARSWOOD, 8, BARKFIELD LANE

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

District:
Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Formby
National Grid Reference:
SD 29098 07764

Details

FORMBY BARKFIELD LANE SD 20 NE (north side) 2/30 No. 8 (Garswood) II House. 1830 s. Stucco with slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with conservatory and peacock house to left. Stable wing to rear. End bays break forward under gables, with rusticated quoins; cornice and blocking course, gables have plain bargeboards. Windows have architraves and are sashed, no glazing bars; end bays have canted bay windows with casements to ground floor. 1st floor end-bay windows have enriched friezes cornices and cartouches above. 3rd-bay entrance has half-glazed doorcase and door. Cast iron. verandah extends between canted bay windows and has balustrade and 5 twisted columns supporting segmental arches, enriched spandrels, cornice and cresting. 2 brick stacks. Peacock house has gable, entrance with architrave and enriched pediment; flanking round-headed windows have archivolts, keys and pediments. Stable wing is roughcast with stucco dressings. Enriched frieze and cornice, timbered gablets over 1st floor windows and small turret with louvres and small spire.

Listing NGR: SD2909807764

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
216427
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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