Former Post Office Maple Leaf Boxing Club is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. Post office, boxing club.
Former Post Office Maple Leaf Boxing Club
- WRENN ID
- stark-ledge-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- Post office, boxing club
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Post Office, now part of the Juvenile Court and housing the rear wing as a boxing club, was built in 1905. It is constructed of stone with a hipped slate roof and features two storeys with five bays, including a canted corner bay, and an additional fourteen bays facing Balliol Road. The end three bays project forward, with the central bay extending even further.
The ground floor has a sill course and cornice, with banded quoins on the projecting sections. The windows on the ground floor are segmental-headed and vary in width, featuring Gibbs surrounds and large triple keystones. The windows are fitted with sashes that have upper glazing bars, as well as similar casements. The first-floor windows are adorned with architraves, and the fourth bay includes a round-headed window with a Gibbs surround and an open pediment.
The entrance in the first bay has an architrave and a round window above, topped with a consoled segmental hood. The canted corner bay features a round-headed entrance supported by Ionic columns and a round hood. The first floor is bowed and contains three windows set between Tuscan colonnettes, topped with an entablature and a cupola featuring an obelisk finial.
The return side has three bays that are similar in style, along with an eleven-bay one-storey wing made of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and bands. This wing has a flat sill course, pilasters, a cornice, and a blocking course. The penultimate bay includes a round-headed entrance with a gate leading to a courtyard, which is framed by a Gibbs surround and an open pediment, with flanking windows that have grilles.
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