MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS

MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379544
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS
Statutory Address:: MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379544
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1999
List Entry Name:: MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: MUSEUM AT BOTANIC GARDENS, BOTANIC ROAD

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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: MUSEUM AT 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 36658 18648

Details

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SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown 664-1/7/255 (North side (off)) Museum at Botanic Gardens

GV II

Museum. 1876, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, slate mansard roof with glazed clerestory and fishscale bands; cast-iron verandah. Loosely Gothic style. Elongated cruciform plan formed by main range on north-south axis with shallow projection to front and wing to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 9-window range, arranged 3:3:3. Formerly symmetrical with a projected gabled centre. Stone plinth, impost band to ground floor, sill and lintel bands to first floor, bracketed gutter cornice. Attached to the centre is a tall cast-iron verandah providing a first-floor balcony, with arcaded 5-bay front and 2-bay returns, slender banded columns with barleysugar twist to the upper sections, arched openwork brackets forming 2-centred arches, and deck protected by openwork railings with delicate quatrefoil panels. The ground floor within this has a wide segmental arch containing a tripartite doorway flanked by tall segmental-pointed 2-light windows, all under relieving arches with stone hoodmoulds, and the first floor above it has tripartite French windows to the balcony flanked by tall casements, all these under segmental-pointed relieving arches. The gable above has a louvred trefoil with hoodmould, and stone coping with apex finial. The left range has 3 doorways with double doors and stilted segmental-pointed overlights, and 3 shouldered cross-windows above; the right-hand range (formerly similar) is now covered at ground floor by a large C20 conservatory. The conservatory is not of special interest. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3665818648

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Legacy System number:: 478931
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.