Main Building Merchant Taylors School (Boys)
MAIN BUILDING MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (BOYS), LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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 1:
- MAIN BUILDING 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:
- 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
CROSBY
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463763
- 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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