74, LIVERPOOL ROAD

74, LIVERPOOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1379603
Date first listed:
16-May-1973
List Entry Name:
74, LIVERPOOL ROAD
Statutory Address:
74, LIVERPOOL ROAD
74, Liverpool Road, Birkdale, Southport. A former farmhouse, now a house, probably early to mid 17th century.
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Date:
2004-09-26
Reference:
IOE01/11217/11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1379603
Date first listed:
16-May-1973
List Entry Name:
74, LIVERPOOL ROAD
Statutory Address 1:
74, LIVERPOOL 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
74, LIVERPOOL 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 33193 15425

Details

SOUTHPORT

SD31NW LIVERPOOL ROAD, Birkdale
664-1/1/9 (West side)
16/05/73 No.74

II*

Farmhouse, now house. Probably early to mid C17; slightly
altered. Cruck frame with rendered walls, straw thatched roof
half-hipped at north end, C20 brick chimneys.
PLAN: 2-bay baffle-entry plan on north-south axis.
EXTERIOR: one low storey with loft; 3-window range. The east
front has a small C20 wooden porch between the second and
third bays, a small 6-pane fixed window to the first bay, a
segmental-headed 3-light sliding sash window to the centre and
a very small rectangular window to the right.
Rebuilt ridge chimney in line with doorway; similar chimney at
left gable. The left gable wall has 2 exceptionally small
square windows to the loft.
The right-hand gable wall has an oblong 2-light casement at
ground floor, a small inserted window to the left and a square
2-light casement to the loft.
The rear wall has a doorway at the north end and a 2-light
sliding sash abutting this, a 3-light sliding sash to the
centre and a small 6-pane fixed window to the south bay.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but believed to have a central room
open to the roof, an inglenook fireplace with timber bressumer
at the upper end of this and an exposed cruck truss at lower,
south end.
The item is the least altered of the few surviving
cruck-framed structures in this district.



Listing NGR: SD3319315425

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
478990
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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