Four Gatepiers at Entrance to Liverpool Speke Airport
FOUR GATEPIERS AT ENTRANCE TO LIVERPOOL SPEKE AIRPORT, SPEKE ROAD, L24
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386588
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Four Gatepiers at Entrance to Liverpool Speke Airport
- Statutory Address:
- FOUR GATEPIERS AT ENTRANCE TO LIVERPOOL SPEKE AIRPORT, SPEKE ROAD, L24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386588
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Four Gatepiers at Entrance to Liverpool Speke Airport
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUR GATEPIERS AT ENTRANCE TO LIVERPOOL SPEKE AIRPORT, SPEKE ROAD, L24
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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:
- FOUR GATEPIERS AT ENTRANCE TO LIVERPOOL SPEKE AIRPORT, SPEKE ROAD, L24
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:
- SJ4149383875
Details
SJ485W
392/10/10096
LIVERPOOL,
SPEKE ROAD,
Four Gatepiers at entrance to Liverpool Speke Airport
GV II
Entrance gatepiers at Liverpool Speke Airport, formerly sited at 2 entrances. c.1940, relocated on a single site in 1998. By Herbert Tyson Smith, sculptor and designer. Rectangular gate piers of ashlar limestone blocks, arranged in staggered formation. The piers to the north each have an integral tapered column to their front face rising from a plain plinth, above which is a carved winged motif forming the head of each pier. The flat pier tops carry the bases of ornate light fittings. The piers are set approx 16 metres apart. Behind them, to the south, a second pair of piers, set further apart, with integral columns to the front faces, but with a plain rounded shallow platform to each pier top. The associated railings and plinth watts were erected in 1998, and are not of special interest.
HISTORY: The piers formerly delineated 2 separate entrances to the airport site. The piers with the winged motif flanked the present entrance to the terminal building, whilst the plainer piers were originally located further to the east a separate entrance to the east, leading to the no. 2 hangar (item 101 1 180), used later as the international terminal.
The gatepiers are representative of the sculptural content of the airport site, also represented by the relief carvings on the principal elevations of the 2 hangars. The gatepiers form part of the most important surviving ensemble of 1930's civil aviation structures in England.
Listing NGR: SJ4149383875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473984
- 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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