COUNTY STAND AT AINTREE RACECOURSE

COUNTY STAND AT AINTREE RACECOURSE, ORMSKIRK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1343257
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1968
List Entry Name:: COUNTY STAND AT AINTREE RACECOURSE
Statutory Address:: COUNTY STAND AT AINTREE RACECOURSE, ORMSKIRK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1343257
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: COUNTY STAND AT AINTREE RACECOURSE
Statutory Address 1:: COUNTY STAND AT AINTREE RACECOURSE, ORMSKIRK ROAD

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:: COUNTY STAND AT AINTREE RACECOURSE, ORMSKIRK ROAD

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District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Aintree Village
National Grid Reference:: SJ3687697985

Details

AINTREE ORMSKIRK ROAD SJ 39 NE (east side) 10/5 County Stand at Aintree Racecourse (fomerly listed as Aintree Racecourse 11.10.68 Grand Stand) II Grandstand. Date stone to pilaster strip reads: "WRG/ June 12th 1885". Brick, yellow to east facade, red to west facade, and stone dressings. 2 storeys and roof terrace, 41 bays; ground floor projects with terrace over, roof terrace on cast iron columns. 12-bay central section has 3-bay bowed ends. Ground floor has rusticated pilaster strips, frieze and cornice and round-headed windows and 2 entrances, frieze and cornice. 1st floor has round-headed windows and entrances, the terrace has balustrade and columns with capitals based on those of the Tower of the Winds supporting roof terrace, which has cast iron balustrade. 7 bays to right similar but C20 alterations. Projecting 1st floor balcony on cast iron columns to last 6 bays of central section and 1st 4 bays to right. A further 16 bays to right also with C20 alterations, red brick extension to ground floor. 6 bays to left of central section similar, with some alterations to ground floor. 6th bay has ground floor passage. West facade has 3 crow-stepped gables and rectangular pavilion at south end next to bowed bay; some brick stacks. Building has historical associations with the Grand National which started as the Grand Liverpool Steeplechase in 1839. Racing dates from 1829.

Listing NGR: SJ3687697985

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Legacy System number:: 216404
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.