Sudley Museum And Art Gallery

SJ 38 NE 7/765

MOSSLEY HILL ROAD L18 Sudley Museum and Art Gallery

14.3.75.

II House, now art gallery. c.1830, with extensions and alterations of 1880's. Stone with hipped slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, end 2 bays project, left hand end recessed, with 2 raised panels. 1st floor sill board and top cornice and blocking course. Windows are sashed, no glazing bars, paired sashes to 5th bay. Porch has Doric columns and Ionic entablature, small extension to right. Stained glass windows to front and left return. End 2 bays have lateral stacks and small cupola. Left return of 3 bays, central bay recessed. Tripartite windows to end bays, tetrastyle Doric porch with Ionic entablature to central bay. Garden front of 5 bays, 2 recessed bays to left and right hand end recessed, with 2 raised panels, 5 bay iron verandah on pierced stone base has Ionic columns and lean to roof with glazed panels. Conservatory to left has canted ends and lattice-glazed upper panes. Interior: Stair hall, c.1830, has Tuscan screen to either side (one now has chimney breast inserted) and 1st floor Doric screen. Saucer dome has lantern with rosette. Many rooms have 1880's Aesthetic style fireplaces; former library has bookcases. Owned and occupied by Holt family (Holt's shipping line) in 1880's and given by them to Liverpool Corporation.

Listing NGR: SJ3879986698