Merchant Taylors School (Girls) That Portion Which Was the Original Foundation
MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (GIRLS) THAT PORTION WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATION, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1257528
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant Taylors School (Girls) That Portion Which Was the Original Foundation
- Statutory Address:
- MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (GIRLS) THAT PORTION WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATION, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1257528
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant Taylors School (Girls) That Portion Which Was the Original Foundation
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (GIRLS) THAT PORTION WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATION, 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:
- MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL (GIRLS) THAT PORTION WHICH WAS THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATION, 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:
- SJ3208599716
Details
CROSBY
SJ39NW LIVERPOOL ROAD
778-1/3/61 (West side)
04/07/52 Merchant Taylors School (Girls),
that portion which was the original
foundation
II*
Original Merchant Taylors' Free Grammar School, now part of
Merchant Taylors' Girls' School. Founded 1620, by John
Harrison (citizen and merchant of London); altered, and now
attached to modern buildings at rear. Large coursed squared
sandstone blocks with some freestone dressings, stone slate
roof. Cruciform plan formed by main range with projected
2-storey porch to front and projected stair-turret to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3:1:3 windows, symmetrical; with a
moulded plinth, string course over ground floor with a frieze
of paterae, moulded eaves cornice, and coped gables with
kneelers and apex finials. The porch has a round-headed
doorway with moulded imposts and C20 panelled divided doors,
at 1st floor a tall square-headed blocked opening (like a
doorway), now rendered and containing a C20 sundial, and in
each side a 2-light mullioned window at ground floor and a
6-light transomed window above. To each side there is a
coupled pair of cross-windows at ground floor, a similar but
shorter pair of cross-windows at 1st floor directly above
these and a 6-light window between these and the porch. All
these windows have chamfered mullions and transoms and
double-chamfered surrounds. Much of the masonry at ground
floor is covered by old incised graffiti (some C18 but mostly
C19). Both gable walls have coupled cross-windows on both
floors (the upper in the left gable now with wooden mullions
and transoms). The rear has a stair-turret with a 6-light
window on each floor, and a large extruded chimney stack to
each bay (that to the 2nd bay now covered by early C20
extension).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ3208599716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463766
- 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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