Sudley Museum and Art Gallery
SUDLEY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, MOSSLEY HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208320
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Sudley Museum and Art Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- SUDLEY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, MOSSLEY HILL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208320
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Sudley Museum and Art Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUDLEY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, MOSSLEY HILL ROAD
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:
- SUDLEY MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, MOSSLEY HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 38799 86698
Details
SJ 38 NE
7/765
MOSSLEY HILL ROAD L18
Sudley Museum and Art Gallery
14.3.75.
II
House, now art gallery. c.1830, with extensions and
alterations of 1880's. Stone with hipped slate roof. 2
storeys, 4 bays, end 2 bays project, left hand end recessed,
with 2 raised panels. 1st floor sill board and top cornice
and blocking course. Windows are sashed, no glazing bars,
paired sashes to 5th bay. Porch has Doric columns and Ionic
entablature, small extension to right. Stained glass
windows to front and left return. End 2 bays have lateral
stacks and small cupola. Left return of 3 bays, central bay
recessed. Tripartite windows to end bays, tetrastyle Doric
porch with Ionic entablature to central bay. Garden front
of 5 bays, 2 recessed bays to left and right hand end
recessed, with 2 raised panels, 5 bay iron verandah on
pierced stone base has Ionic columns and lean to roof with
glazed panels. Conservatory to left has canted ends and
lattice-glazed upper panes. Interior: Stair hall, c.1830,
has Tuscan screen to either side (one now has chimney breast
inserted) and 1st floor Doric screen. Saucer dome has
lantern with rosette. Many rooms have 1880's Aesthetic
style fireplaces; former library has bookcases. Owned and
occupied by Holt family (Holt's shipping line) in 1880's and
given by them to Liverpool Corporation.
Listing NGR: SJ3879986698
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359105
- 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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