The Stork Hotel Public House
THE STORK HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 41-43, PRICE STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6JN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201756
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Stork Hotel Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE STORK HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 41-43, PRICE STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6JN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201756
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Stork Hotel Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE STORK HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 41-43, PRICE STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6JN
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:
- THE STORK HOTEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 41-43, PRICE STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6JN
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 32271 89036
Details
SJ 38 NW
789-1/9/138
BIRKENHEAD
PRICE STREET (south side)
Nos. 41-43, The Stork Hotel
10.08.1992
II
Includes: The Stork Hotel, ADELPHI STREET
Public house. Mid C19, remodelled c.1910. Glazed brick and tile ground floor, white-painted brick above. Welsh slate roof. End and mid-roof stacks.
PLAN. Corner site, with two street elevations and with passage surrounding public bar and leading to other bars and staircase.
EXTERIOR. Three storeys, with chamfered corner and five bay range to Price Street (left) and three bays to Adelphi Street (right). Ground floor with semi-circular arch-headed doorway to corner angle, now blocked. Adelphi Street elevation with a central entrance flanked by a tripartite window to either side. Brown glazed brick facing with blue tile pilasters flanking the windows and doorway. Blue enriched sill bands to the windows. Price Street elevation similarly detailed, with doorway flanked on the left by a tripartite window, and on the right by two fixed light windows with transom lights. Mosaic apron in front of Price Street entrance. Etched and stained glass with bold Art Nouveau patterns. Sash windows to first and second floors of both elevations, with plain cill bands to first floor and smaller second floor openings.
INTERIOR. Fittings of c.1910, including bar counter and back. The latter forms one wall of a corridor surrounding the public bar. Lower part tiled with blue and yellow tiles by the Swan Pottery, Tunstall. Wooden superstructure with sash windows and richly-decorated woodwork and Art Nouveau glazing. Decorative tiling extends along the other corridor wall and up the stairs. Small lobby to Adelphi Street entrance and beyond a 'News Room' named as such in the glass of its windows and door; fixed seating with bell-pushes above. Large lounge (formerly sub-divided) with fixed seating. Large function room with elaborate cornice on first floor.
An little -altered and richly-detailed example of a late C19 public house remodelled in the Edwardian period, which retains a little-disturbed plan, and many of the fittings and elements of ornate decoration dating to the period of remodelling.
Listing NGR: SJ3227189036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389299
- 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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