Number 36, Cafe Bar

36, DERBY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210185
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Number 36, Cafe Bar
Statutory Address:
36, DERBY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210185
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Number 36, Cafe Bar
Statutory Address 1:
36, DERBY STREET
Statutory Address 2:
CAFE BAR, RAILWAY 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
36, DERBY STREET
Statutory Address:
CAFE BAR, RAILWAY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD4162808336

Details

SD4108SE
663-1/8/154
11/08/72

ORMSKIRK
DERBY STREET
(South side)
No.36
(Formerly Listed as:
DERBY STREET
(South side)
No.36
Commercial Hotel)

GV
II

Hotel, now restaurant. Mid C19; altered.
Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate
roof. Irregular plan on corner site, with canted corner.
Three storeys over cellars, 4 windows to Derby Street, plus
canted corner to left; with a stone plinth, rusticated quoins,
plain frieze, moulded cornice and projected eaves (supported
by a large console at the right-hand corner).
The facade has a round-headed doorway in the 3rd bay, in a
stone architrave of fluted Doric semi-columns with
entablature, and an altered fanlight above this; and windows
with raised sills and wedge lintels, those at ground floor
with early C20 glazing, those at 1st floor with 12-pane
sashes, and the centre pair at 2nd floor furnished with 6-pane
sashes while the outer are blind. The canted corner to the
left has matching sashed windows at 1st and 2nd floors, and a
mask on the frieze. Various chimneys.
The left return wall (to Railway Road), 5 bays, has a doorway
in the 4th with inset pilastered doorcase and fanlight with
radiating glazing bars, and fenestration like that at the
front, including some blind windows. Forms group with Nos 11 &
13 opposite (q.v.) and with railway bridge (q.v.) and drinking
fountain (q.v.) to east.

Listing NGR: SD4162808336

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
386392
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.

Ordnance survey map of Number 36, Cafe Bar

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