Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
WILLIAMSON ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, SLATEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282541
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
- Statutory Address:
- WILLIAMSON ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, SLATEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282541
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLIAMSON ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, SLATEY 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:
- WILLIAMSON ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, SLATEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 30929 88041
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3088 SLATEY ROAD, Claughton 789-1/10/206 (East side) Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
GV II
Art gallery and museum. 1928. By Leonard Hannaford and Herbert Thearle. Brick with stone dressings, part-glazed low pitched roof. Single-storeyed, built around 2 internal courtyards. Neo-Georgian style. Entrance front to Slatey Road with advanced entrance towards centre: paired Corinthian columns flank double doors in stone architrave, "Williamson Art Gallery and Museum" inscribed in the cornice above. Flanking bays marked by large brick-work panels with rusticated brick frieze below stone cornice, and brick quoins at angles. Paired Corinthian pilasters each side of recessed round arched window towards the right. Centre of elevation to Ball's Road slightly advanced and marked by 6 Corinthian pilasters under cornice with paterae. Between the pilasters, expressed round arched blind niches, 2 with abstract reliefs. Stone plinth and cornice throughout. The building is almost entirely windowless, relying on top-lighting into the galleries which are arranged on the corridor principal.
Listing NGR: SJ3092988041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389353
- 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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