VENTILATION STATION OF THE MERSEY ROAD TUNNEL

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:: VENTILATION STATION OF THE MERSEY ROAD TUNNEL, TAYLOR STREET

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 389357
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)

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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.