SEAFORTH ARMS HOTEL

SEAFORTH ARMS HOTEL, SEAFORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257325
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1996
List Entry Name:: SEAFORTH ARMS HOTEL
Statutory Address:: SEAFORTH ARMS HOTEL, SEAFORTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257325
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1996
List Entry Name:: SEAFORTH ARMS HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: SEAFORTH ARMS HOTEL, SEAFORTH ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SEAFORTH ARMS HOTEL, SEAFORTH ROAD

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

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 33225 97010

Details

CROSBY

SJ39NW SEAFORTH ROAD 778-1/3/116 (West side) Seaforth Arms Hotel

II

Public house. Probably c1900-14, slightly altered. Sandstone ashlar at ground floor, with polished brown granite plinth, Accrington brick at 1st floor with red sandstone dressings, graduated green slate roof. Edwardian Baroque style. PLAN: irregular plan formed by double-depth main range parallel to street with a short but wide gabled wing offset left and a canted porch in the angle. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2:1:1 bays, in a boldly articulated design, with channelled rustication to the ground floor, a plain frieze and prominent moulded cornice over the ground floor, a moulded 1st-floor sillband, plain frieze and moulded cornice over the upper floor, a stone parapet, an open pedimental gable to the 2nd bay, and a wrought-iron balustrade and pilastered turret over the porch. The porch has a round-headed doorway with triple keystone and stained glass fanlight, a large cartouche with raised monogram lettering "TBCoLtd" framed by Ionic colonnettes with Gibbsian blocks and an open pediment; and pairs of similar colonnettes at 1st floor framing a cross-window with Gibbsian architrave. The range to the left has 2 bowed tripartite windows at ground floor, enriched pilasters at 1st floor framing a very large semi-circular monogrammed plaque in the 1st bay, a tripartite window in the 2nd bay with Gibbsian mullions, and a carved cartouche in the pediment above. The range to the right of the porch has a doorway and a tripartite window at ground floor, and a transomed 1-light window above with a Gibbsian surround. The right-hand return wall, composed of a broad pedimented gable and a short rear wing, is in similar style, including a large round-headed doorway at ground floor, a 4-light window above and a 3-light attic window in the gable with an elaborate consoled architrave including a triple keystone. Two ridge chimneys with prominent stone cornices. INTERIOR: east and north internal porches with glazed tiles in Art Nouveau style; similar glazed tile dado; cross-corner fireplace of white glazed tiles in Classical style; panelled bar with glazed screens, slightly altered; former internal partitions in main range removed.

Listing NGR: SJ3322597010

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Legacy System number:: 463987
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.