Museum at Botanic Gardens
MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379544
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Museum at Botanic Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC ROAD
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- Date:
- 2004-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/12596/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379544
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Museum at Botanic Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC ROAD
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:
- MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 36658 18648
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown
664-1/7/255 (North side (off))
Museum at Botanic Gardens
GV II
Museum. 1876, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with
sandstone dressings, slate mansard roof with glazed clerestory
and fishscale bands; cast-iron verandah. Loosely Gothic style.
Elongated cruciform plan formed by main range on north-south
axis with shallow projection to front and wing to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 9-window range, arranged 3:3:3.
Formerly symmetrical with a projected gabled centre. Stone
plinth, impost band to ground floor, sill and lintel bands to
first floor, bracketed gutter cornice. Attached to the centre
is a tall cast-iron verandah providing a first-floor balcony,
with arcaded 5-bay front and 2-bay returns, slender banded
columns with barleysugar twist to the upper sections, arched
openwork brackets forming 2-centred arches, and deck protected
by openwork railings with delicate quatrefoil panels.
The ground floor within this has a wide segmental arch
containing a tripartite doorway flanked by tall
segmental-pointed 2-light windows, all under relieving arches
with stone hoodmoulds, and the first floor above it has
tripartite French windows to the balcony flanked by tall
casements, all these under segmental-pointed relieving arches.
The gable above has a louvred trefoil with hoodmould, and
stone coping with apex finial.
The left range has 3 doorways with double doors and stilted
segmental-pointed overlights, and 3 shouldered cross-windows
above; the right-hand range (formerly similar) is now covered
at ground floor by a large C20 conservatory. The conservatory
is not of special interest.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD3665818648
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478931
- 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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