Walton Hospital (Original Building Only)
WALTON HOSPITAL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), RICE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361912
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Walton Hospital (Original Building Only)
- Statutory Address:
- WALTON HOSPITAL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), RICE LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361912
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Walton Hospital (Original Building Only)
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALTON HOSPITAL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), RICE LANE
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:
- WALTON HOSPITAL (ORIGINAL BUILDING ONLY), RICE LANE
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 35729 95340
Details
SJ 39 NE RICE LANE L9
1/964 Walton Hospital (original building only) 14.3.75. G.V. II
Workhouse, now hospital, 1868. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys, 56 bays. 3-bay projecting centre with 23 bays to left, 22 bays to right and 4 x 4-bay end pedimented pavilions. 1st floor sill band and top modillioned cornice. Pavilions have rusticated quoins. Windows have cut-brick flat arches with stone keys, those to 2nd floor are segmental-headed. Most are sashed with glazing bars. Centre has sill bands, quoin strips and top frieze and cornice. Projecting centre bay of stone with channelled rustication forms base of tower and has 2-storey canted bay window with central pediment. Flanking bays have 1st floor windows with round tympana and banded arches. Entrances in porches have round heads, consoled pediments and parapets. Tower has 3 tall recesses on each side, the lower parts louvred. 4-face clock in stone surrounds with flanking colonnettes and banded pointed arches. Top frieze with roundels, cornice and pierced parapet. Swept pavilion roof has lucarnes and iron cresting. Flanking ranges have 4 entrances, now windows, with angle pilasters, friezes and cornices; a further 2 now replaced by connecting corridors. 6 square louvres with ogival caps. Later extensions.
Listing NGR: SJ3572995340
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359311
- 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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