MAIN BUILDING MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS)

MAIN BUILDING MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS), LIVERPOOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257525
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS)
Statutory Address:: MAIN BUILDING MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS), LIVERPOOL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257525
Date first listed:: 26-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: MAIN BUILDING MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS)
Statutory Address 1:: MAIN BUILDING MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS), LIVERPOOL 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:: MAIN BUILDING 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:: SJ3212199004

Details

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SJ39NW LIVERPOOL ROAD 778-1/3/60 (West side) 26/03/73 Main building, Merchant Taylors School (Boys)

GV II

School. 1878, by Lockwood and Mawson. Red brick in English bond with sandstone and terracotta dressings, graduated green slate roofs with bands of blue slate fishscaling, lead roof to tower. Gothic style. Elongated U-plan with main range centred on tower and long receding wings. EXTERIOR: main range, single storey plus attics, 5+5 windows interrupted by tall tower over central entrance, 2-storey wing to left and high single-storey wing (hall) to right. Plinth with chamfered stone coping, stone sillband. The central tower has a large 2-centred arched doorway with 2 orders of roll-moulding under a coped gablet with carved apex finial, 2 lancets to the second stage, a clockface in a square panel at the 3rd stage, and a large oversailing 4th stage with tourelles, an arcaded 5-light window and embattled parapet, surmounted by a 2-stage louvred lantern with lead-clad pyramidal roofing. The 5-window side ranges each have 2 gabled bays breaking the eaves, with 2-centred arched windows, alternating with 3 square-headed windows, all cross-windows with altered glazing but the arched windows with plate tracery in the heads; and 2 small gabled dormers high in the roof. The left wing, with angle-buttresses and a hipped roof, has a large canted bay window at ground floor with quatrefoil-enriched parapet, and at 1st floor a 2-centred arched 2-light window rising into a gablet. The right-hand wing, also with angle buttresses, has a very large multiple-light canted bay window with quatrefoil frieze and hipped stone slate roof. The left return of the left wing, 8 windows, in an asymmetrical composition, has a gabled porch next to a wide central gable, tall mullion-and-transom windows at ground floor and mostly 2-centred arched windows at 1st floor rising into gablets. The right-hand return of the right wing has six tall 2-centred arched 2-light windows with circular plate tracery. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with associated headmaster's house (qv), entrance lodge (qv) and gateway (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ3212199004

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Legacy System number:: 463763
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.