Entrance Gateway to Beechley
ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO BEECHLEY, HARTHILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252943
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway to Beechley
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO BEECHLEY, HARTHILL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252943
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway to Beechley
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO BEECHLEY, HARTHILL 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:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO BEECHLEY, HARTHILL 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 40070 87490
Details
SJ 4087 HARTHILL ROAD ALLERTON
392-0/0/10003 Entrance gateway to Beechley
GV II
Entrance gateway to merchant's villa. c.1836. Red sandstone ashlar gate piers and walls, wrought-iron gates. An inner and an outer pair of gate piers linked by S-shaped walls; both pairs of gate piers are square in section and approx. 3 metres high, with shallow moulded pyramidal caps; the inner pair are of rusticated masonry and the outer pair are plain monoliths. The S-shaped linking walls are almost full height, with plinths and flat copings, the outer sides faced with 4 courses of large rectangular grooved blocks. The inner pair of piers carry a pair of sturdy-wrought-iron gates with plain bar railings, dog-bars which are alternately wavy and straight, and pairs of scrolled panels in the upper part. Forms group with Beechley (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ4007187492
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436066
- 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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