Oswaldcroft

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SJ 4088 35/1386

WOOLTON ROAD L16 No 270 Oswaldcroft

(Formerly listed as Saint Joseph's Home)

14.3.75.

G.V. II*

House, Catholic residential home at time of listing. 1845-1847. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.

Garden front, 1866, Edward Welby Pugin. Stone, roof of hexagonal slates, two storeys with attic, seven bays. End bays project under gables with end stacks. Irregular fenestration, four-light stair window to second bay with king mullion and transom and traceried heads. Second bay narrow lights. Third bay cross window, with three-light window over. Fourth bay has cross window. Fifth bay narrow windows. Two gabled roof dormers and gabled dormer. Windows mostly have small-paned casements, stair window has stained glass. Porch to left of stair window has pointed entrance and shield in gable. Garden front of seven bays, end bays project under gables, central bay window irregularly placed. Ground floor has cross windows to left of entrance, those to right have mullions, transoms and pointed heads to lights, all with label moulds; first bay has cross windows with buttress, between supporting canted oriel flanked by shields and ornamented panels, one dated. End bay has two-storey canted bay with hipped slate roof; 1;3;1-light windows with pointed heads. Two and three-light central bay first floor windows. First bay has two-light pointed attic window and two-light attic window to end bay; three roof dormers between. Three cross-axial clustered stacks and end stack.

Entrance hall has encaustic tiles with heraldic crest and initials "HS". Stair and gallery with curved balusters two rooms facing garden have chamfered beams, one retains stencilling; two stone fireplaces. C20 extensions.

Listing NGR: SJ4044488453