Sandy Knowe
SANDY KNOWE, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363073
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Sandy Knowe
- Statutory Address:
- SANDY KNOWE, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363073
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sandy Knowe
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANDY KNOWE, MILL 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:
- SANDY KNOWE, MILL 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 39359 89958
Details
SJ 3989 MILL LANE
L15
31/751
Sandy Knowe
(formerly
listed as
former Independ-
ent Methodist
19.11.74 Church)
G.V. II
House, now flats.
Designed and built by Sir James Picton, the architect and historian. Inscription on frieze:, "Laus Deo 1847". Stone with slate roof. L-plan with octagonal turret in angle and octagonal extension to south-east, 2 storeys with attic. Drip mould over ground floor, top frieze and cornice, inscription to turret. Windows are mostly mullioned, that to
left of turret in projection under lean-to to roof. Gabled bay to right of turret has 2-storey canted bay window with parapet. 2 shaped gables with finials. Entrance to turret in
Jacobean style with segmental head and curved spandrels, flanking columns taper towards bases, cornice and strapwork cresting; now a window. Octagonal extension once the library, one storey with Lombard frieze, and Picton arms, now much altered with inserted window and rooflight in new mansard roof, chimney removed. C20 extensions adjoin library. Sir James Picton lived here until his death in 1889.
Listing NGR: SJ3935989958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 359091
- 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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