WELLINGTON ROOMS (NOW THE IRISH CENTRE)

WELLINGTON ROOMS (NOW THE IRISH CENTRE), MOUNT PLEASANT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1208360
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: WELLINGTON ROOMS (NOW THE IRISH CENTRE)
Statutory Address:: WELLINGTON ROOMS (NOW THE IRISH CENTRE), MOUNT PLEASANT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1208360
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: WELLINGTON ROOMS (NOW THE IRISH CENTRE)
Statutory Address 1:: WELLINGTON ROOMS (NOW THE IRISH CENTRE), MOUNT PLEASANT

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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WELLINGTON ROOMS (NOW THE IRISH CENTRE), MOUNT PLEASANT

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 35565 90117

Details

SJ 3590 SE MOUNT PLEASANT (north side) L3

55/776 Wellington Rooms (now the Irish 28.6.52 Centre)

G.V. II*

Club rooms. 1815 by Edmund Aikin. Built as a fashionable private assembly room for the Wellington Club. Ashlar, slate roof. Facade of one storey, without windows. Moulded plinth and top entablature and parapet. Slight forward break at each end with flanking Corinthian pilasters. Sculptured plaques on the blank walls. In the centre is a semi-circular projection with tetrastyle Corinthian attached colonnade and antefixae over entablature. Portico originally open, but soon filled in and present door added. Interior has circular entrance hall, ballroom with relief frieze, gilt swags and panelled walls etc, also upper rooms, card room etc, some being octagonal - interior decoration probably later C19. Relief frieze said to be by Flaxman. Plain iron area railings, iron lantern on bracket over entrance. Brick return facade with stone pilastrade.

Listing NGR: SJ3556590117

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Legacy System number:: 359117
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.