St Anselm's Junior School (Redcourt)
ST ANSELM'S JUNIOR SCHOOL (REDCOURT), 7, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201567
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St Anselm's Junior School (Redcourt)
- Statutory Address:
- ST ANSELM'S JUNIOR SCHOOL (REDCOURT), 7, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201567
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St Anselm's Junior School (Redcourt)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ANSELM'S JUNIOR SCHOOL (REDCOURT), 7, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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:
- ST ANSELM'S JUNIOR SCHOOL (REDCOURT), 7, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3043988308
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3088 DEVONSHIRE PLACE, Claughton
789-1/10/188 (South side)
28/03/74 No.7
St Anselm's Junior School (Redcourt)
GV II
House, now in use as school. 1876-9. Edmund Kirby for George
Rae. Red brick with red sandstone dressings and plain tiled
roof. Simplified Tudor style, with expressive asymmetrical
planning. 3 storeys. Entrance front of 3 bays with moulded
brick arched doorway to the right. Central advanced gabled bay
with mullioned and transomed windows. Mullioned and transomed
windows in left-hand bay with hipped dormer window over. To
the right of the doorway, stack slightly corbelled out, with
inscription stone set in: "Redcourt built in the years 1876-9
by George Rae. God's Providence mine inheritance." Right-hand
return elevation has central stack and advanced gable to
right, with 6-light mullioned and transomed windows to ground
and 1st floor, 5-light mullioned window to attic. 4-light
mullioned and transomed windows in left-hand bay, and narrow
lights within the chimney to ground and 1st floor. Rear
elevation with full-height canted bay to right, and
asymmetrical gable to left. Paired 3-light mullioned windows
in central section to 1st floor, 4-light mullioned window with
transom to ground floor, and 4-light mullioned window to
attic. Lower service wing to right. Subtle brick detailing
throughout, with simply moulded string courses, and eaves
stressed by deep bands of slightly stepped brickwork. Gable
and axial stacks have star-shaped or octagonal shafts.
Listing NGR: SJ3043988308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389174
- 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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