Pooley Gates
POOLEY GATES, PARADISE STREET, LIVERPOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216116
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pooley Gates
- Statutory Address:
- POOLEY GATES, PARADISE STREET, LIVERPOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216116
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pooley Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOLEY GATES, PARADISE STREET, LIVERPOOL
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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:
- POOLEY GATES, PARADISE STREET, LIVERPOOL
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:
- SJ3453789992
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/07/2014
SP 08 NW
9/79
LIVERPOOL,
PARADISE STREET
Pooley Gates
(Formerly listed as Pooley Gates, Soho Foundry, Smethwick, FOUNDRY LANE (off), SANDWELL MB)
30.3.87
II
Gates and gateway, circa 1840/50s of cast iron.
History: The gates were made in Liverpool by Henry Pooley and Son to the designs of John Cunningham and installed at the Liverpool Sailors Home by 1852. The gates were removed from the Sailors Home following the Liverpool Blitz as part of restoration works, and the house itself was demolished during the 1970s.The gates were offered for sale in 1948 to W & T Avery which had merged with Henry Pooley in 1931. By 1951 the gates had been erected at Avery’s Soho Foundry in Smethwick, Sandwell. In 2011 consent was granted to move the gates back to Liverpool and they were subsequently installed in Paradise Street adjacent to the former site of the Sailor’s Home.
Description: Gates and gateway. Lower part in four sections, the two central ones opening as gates. Each has diagonal lattice infill cast to resemble rope, with a knot at each inter-section. Each has a central lozenge with a cast mermaid with two tails. Above is an elaborate superstructure, with a Liver bird above ropework draped with cloth, flanked by nautical symbols including oars, flags and bugles, ships' wheels and intersecting dolphins.
Listing NGR: SJ3453789992
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219289
- 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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