Prince Arthur
PRINCE ARTHUR, 93, RICE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380269
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Prince Arthur
- Statutory Address:
- PRINCE ARTHUR, 93, RICE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380269
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Prince Arthur
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRINCE ARTHUR, 93, RICE LANE
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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:
- PRINCE ARTHUR, 93, RICE 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 35914 95212
Details
LIVERPOOL
SJ 39 NE RICE LANE 392/1/10116 93 27-APR-00 Prince Arthur
II
Public house. Mid-C19, ground floor remodelled c.1905. MATERIALS: brown brick with tiled ground floor facade and black and buff brick polychrome detail above. Welsh slate roof. Brick ridge stacks. PLAN: Trapezoidal, short side to south. Central servery surrounded by L-shaped public bar at front and L-shaped corridor behind. Smoke room and toilets to rear. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Ground floor with entrances to left and at corner (the latter blocked) on Rice Lane; further 2 entrances (one blocked) on return. Entrances framed by deep red tiles and polished larvikite pilasters with terracotta capitals above. 2 entrances with wreath-like circles over. 2 windows to Rice Lane divided into irregular-shaped compartments and containing etched and coloured glass. 2 similar windows on return, then a 2-light window, each light with 3 compartments. Below the glazed openings deep red tile work ornamented with a rectangular frame of buff tiles. Between the capitals the pilasters a glazed fascia board with maroon ground and gold letters stating 'THE PRINCE ARTHUR' and 'WALKER'S WARRINGTON ALES'. Timber cornice below first floor windows. First and second floors to Rice Lane each with four 4-light sash windows with glazing bars, the windows on the second floor being smaller. Similar windows on return. Roof pitch over 2 left bays on Rice Lane lower than the rest. INTERIOR: internal porches to the surviving entrances. Trapezoidal shaped servery with rounded corners; short side on south. Red tiles with yellow and blue trails and swags cover the counter front. Same tiles used on the corridor and public bar dados. On rear bar counter screenwork with Art Nouveau style coloured glass and timberwork; openings for serving hatches; similar screen and hatch on bar counter short side. Public bar has 2 short glazed projections attached to the counter. Contemporary bar back with shelving. Smoke room with double doors with etched glass stating 'SMOKE ROOM', fixed seating and bell pushes. Baffles either side of the entrance to the ladies' toilet. Mosaic floor in corridor leading to gents' toilets, triple urinal by Musgraves of Liverpool. A very fine example of an urban public house remodelled at turn of the century and which retains both its plan, and lavish and complete furnishing and decorative scheme.
Listing NGR: SJ3591495212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480081
- 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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