Oswaldcroft
Oswaldcroft, 270, Woolton Road, L16 8NE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291830
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Oswaldcroft
- Statutory Address:
- Oswaldcroft, 270, Woolton Road, L16 8NE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291830
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Oswaldcroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- Oswaldcroft, 270, Woolton Road, L16 8NE
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:
- Oswaldcroft, 270, Woolton Road, L16 8NE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40444 88453
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 June 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SJ 4088
35/1386
WOOLTON ROAD L16
No 270
Oswaldcroft
(Formerly listed as Saint Joseph's Home)
14.3.75.
G.V.
II*
House, Catholic residential home at time of listing. 1845-1847. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.
Garden front, 1866, Edward Welby Pugin. Stone, roof of hexagonal slates, two storeys with attic, seven bays. End bays project under gables with end stacks. Irregular fenestration, four-light stair window to second bay with king mullion and transom and traceried heads. Second bay narrow lights. Third bay cross window, with three-light window over. Fourth bay has cross window. Fifth bay narrow windows. Two gabled roof dormers and gabled dormer. Windows mostly have small-paned casements, stair window has stained glass. Porch to left of stair window has pointed entrance and shield in gable. Garden front of seven bays, end bays project under gables, central bay window irregularly placed. Ground floor has cross windows to left of entrance, those to right have mullions, transoms and pointed heads to lights, all with label moulds; first bay has cross windows with buttress, between supporting canted oriel flanked by shields and ornamented panels, one dated. End bay has two-storey canted bay with hipped slate roof; 1;3;1-light windows with pointed heads. Two and three-light central bay first floor windows. First bay has two-light pointed attic window and two-light attic window to end bay; three roof dormers between. Three cross-axial clustered stacks and end stack.
Entrance hall has encaustic tiles with heraldic crest and initials "HS". Stair and gallery with curved balusters two rooms facing garden have chamfered beams, one retains stencilling; two stone fireplaces. C20 extensions.
Listing NGR: SJ4044488453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359767
- 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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