Arden College
ARDEN COLLEGE, DERBY ROAD, SOUTHPORT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379576
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Arden College
- Statutory Address:
- ARDEN COLLEGE, DERBY ROAD, SOUTHPORT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379576
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Arden College
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARDEN COLLEGE, DERBY ROAD, SOUTHPORT
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- ARDEN COLLEGE, DERBY ROAD, SOUTHPORT
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:
- SD3426017210
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/09/2014
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664-1/1/29
SOUTHPORT,
DERBY ROAD (North West side),
Arden College
(Formerly listed as Church House, No. 40)
GV II
Formerly known as: Primitive Methodist Sunday School DERBY ROAD.
Primitive Methodist Sunday School, now further education college. Dated 1890 in central gable; altered. By FW Dixon. Accrington brick with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. Eclectic style. Large rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 9-window range. Windows arranged 2:1:3:1:2. Symmetrical, with the large gabled centre linked to gabled wings by narrow single-window bays with balustraded parapets. The centre has gableted stone pilaster-buttresses to the ground floor, coupled pilasters to the taller upper floor, the outermost surmounted by urns which flank a tall gable with pilasters to a shaped and pedimented centre. The ground floor has large doorways in the outer bays, with overlights, and a pair of windows in the centre with mullioned top lights, beneath which is a foundation stone laid by WP Hartley Esq. 1890 (inscription).The upper floor has a large round-headed window in the centre with a keyed architrave, and wooden mullions and transoms forming 3 tiers of patterned stained glass lights with an unusual small pediment on the centre of the upper transom; rectangular windows in the outer bays with mullioned top lights and raised brick surrounds which have segmental-pedimented panels over them. In the centre of the gable is a wide stone plaque lettered: PRIMITIVE METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL 1890. The gabled wings, each with 2 narrow pilastered bays and a shaped gable, have windows at ground floor like those of the centre and round-headed windows at first floor. Sides and rear are plainer.
INTERIOR: reported to be remodelled.
Forms group with Methodist Church of St Mark to the north (qv).
Listing NGR: SD3426017210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478963
- 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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