NUMBER 2 LODGE AT ENTRANCE TO BOTANIC GARDENS

NUMBER 2 LODGE AT ENTRANCE TO BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379546
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 2 LODGE AT ENTRANCE TO BOTANIC GARDENS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 2 LODGE AT ENTRANCE TO BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379546
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 2 LODGE AT ENTRANCE TO BOTANIC GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 2 LODGE AT ENTRANCE TO BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC 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:: NUMBER 2 LODGE AT ENTRANCE TO 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 36670 18591

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SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown 664-1/7/257 (North side) No.2 Lodge at entrance to Botanic Gardens

GV II

One of a pair of lodges at main entrance to Botanic Gardens. c1876. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, slate roof with bands of green fishscale slates. Neo-Jacobean style. Modified T-plan formed by main range parallel to drive (on its right-hand side) and a service wing to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, presenting a gabled one-window facade to Botanic Road; with quoins, a plain sill band to each floor (carried round), steeply-pitched roof with pierced ridge cresting and coped gable with branched apex finial. The front gable has a rectangular bay window at ground floor with cross-casements, shouldered reveal, cavetto cornice and hipped lead-clad roof; a tall cross-window at first floor with stone lintel under a stone segmental-pointed relieving arch; blind quatrefoil in the gable above. The facade to the drive has a small 5-sided single-storey bay window in the centre with 3 narrow sashes, an enriched stone frieze and a steeply-pitched hipped roof with fishscale band. Slightly extruded chimney stack corbelled from first floor, and to the left one cross-window on each floor, with a gablet above the upper window. The service wing is in similar style, also with a gablet. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms a group with No.1 Lodge (qv), with the associated Gate piers and gates between them (qv), and with the former Lock-up to the east (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3667018591

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Legacy System number:: 478933
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.