Sefton Park Palm House

Sefton Park Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, L17 1AP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1292339
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: Sefton Park Palm House
Statutory Address:: Sefton Park Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, L17 1AP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1292339
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: Sefton Park Palm House
Statutory Address 1:: Sefton Park Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, L17 1AP

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:: Sefton Park Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, L17 1AP

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District:: Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 37884 87565

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 05/06/2018

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SEFTON PARK, L17 Sefton Park Palm House

(Formerly listed as Palm House, SEFTON PARK)

12.07.66.

GV II* Palm House, built in 1896, designed by Mackenzie and Moncur. It is octagonal in plan. It has an iron frame on a granite base, with totally glazed openings. It appears as a sequence of three domical roofs, one above the other, including a clerestorey and lantern with a ball finial. The side elevations are of six bays with three round-arched lights and colonnettes to each bay, and ornamental cresting above. There are entrances to the north, south-east and west with barrel-vaulted porches that are enclosed at the sides and have ornamental gates, some with animals or birds. There are statues at each angle by Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud of famous gardeners, explorers and scientists. Flanking the north entrance are A le Notre and J Parkinson; to the east are Mercator and Captain Cook; to the south are Darwin and Linnaeus; and to the west are Henry the Navigator and Columbus.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Sefton Park was subject to an attack by militant suffragettes in November 1913. The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester in 1903. Its members were committed to direct action incorporating increasingly violent attacks on property, and the Sefton Park attack was one of a number of attempts to cause criminal damage in public parks nationally. A park keeper discovered a home-made bomb in the porch of the palm house; its fuses had been lit but had blown out in the wind. In keeping with the WSPU policy, the perpetrator was not formally identified, although it is likely to have been carried out by Kitty Marion, a self-confessed suffragette arsonist and bomber who had suffragette friends in Liverpool, and who pasted press cuttings relating to this attack in her scrap book.

This list entry was amended in 2018 as part of the centenary commemorations of the 1918 Representation of the People Act.

Listing NGR: SJ3788487565

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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.