Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel
VENTILATION STATION OF THE MERSEY ROAD TUNNEL, TAYLOR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201737
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel
- Statutory Address:
- VENTILATION STATION OF THE MERSEY ROAD TUNNEL, TAYLOR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201737
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel
- Statutory Address 1:
- VENTILATION STATION OF THE MERSEY ROAD TUNNEL, TAYLOR STREET
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:
- VENTILATION STATION OF THE MERSEY ROAD TUNNEL, TAYLOR STREET
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:
- SJ 32262 89284
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3289 TAYLOR STREET 789-1/9/148 (West side) 10/10/80 Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel
II
Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel. 1925-34. By Sir Basil Mott and J.A.Brodie, engineers, and Herbert J.Rowse, architect. Brick faced steel framed construction. Tower comprised of a series of grouped geometric blocks, largely blind but with small doorway in eastern elevation, and double doors in northern elevation. Doors themselves original features, with bands of chevron and scallop decoration. Architraves formed from rippled coursing of brick, with wing motifs in centre. Some ornamentation in the brickwork, with diamond frieze at base and giant cross motif in the largest of the blocks. Chevron bands of brickwork mark the tops of the towers, and the largest block is marked by a frieze of recessed panels or slits. Built to house fans as part of the ventilation system for the road tunnel. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3226189285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389357
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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