Headmasters House to Merchant Taylors School (Boys)
HEADMASTERS HOUSE TO MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS), LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257522
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Headmasters House to Merchant Taylors School (Boys)
- Statutory Address:
- HEADMASTERS HOUSE TO MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS), LIVERPOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257522
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Headmasters House to Merchant Taylors School (Boys)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEADMASTERS HOUSE TO MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS), LIVERPOOL 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:
- HEADMASTERS HOUSE TO MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS), LIVERPOOL 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 32058 99002
Details
CROSBY
SJ39NW LIVERPOOL ROAD 778-1/3/59 (West side) Headmaster's House to Merchant Taylors School (Boys)
GV II
Headmaster's house, now offices. Probably 1878, by Lockwood and Mawson. Red brick in English bond, with sandstone and terracotta dressings, graduated green slate roof with blue slate fishscale bands. Eclectic style with both Gothic and Tudor features. Modified square plan with projecting gabled bays. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2:1 windows with a short gabled wing to the right; chamfered plinth, 1st-floor string course carried round. Gabled porch in angle, with 2-centred arched doorway, set-in colonnettes with foliated caps, divided doors, oversailing verges on wooden brackets, with panelled bargeboards and cut-down finial. Tall cross-window to left and one and 2-light windows above;, large 6-light transomed window at ground floor of gabled wing to right and stepped 3-light window above. Short ridge chimneys with swept stone caps (probably bases to former tall shafts now missing). Left return, 2:1 windows, with 2 gables, that to the right projecting, with a storeyed canted bay window which has crocketed cornices to both levels; other fenestration like that to front. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with main school building (qv).
Listing NGR: SJ3205899002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463760
- 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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