No. 137 Liverpool Road

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CROSBY, LIVERPOOL ROAD (East side), No. 137

(Formerly listed as Sacred Heart High School (former annex))

GV II

Villa, later annex to school but unoccupied at time of survey and subject to vandalism (openings boarded in July 1995). Probably mid C19; altered. Cream-painted roughcast render with sandstone dressings painted white, hipped slate roof. Classical style. Double-depth double-fronted plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 windows, almost symmetrical, with a moulded plinth, rusticated quoins, moulded 1st-floor sillband, string-course over 1st floor and moulded gutter cornice. The ground floor has a large rectangular porch with Tuscan pilasters distyle-in-antis, a plain frieze and moulded cornice with a blocking course, a round-headed doorway with imposts and keystone, a panelled door with plain overlight, and a round-headed window in the side, with a keyed architrave; a 4-pane sash to the left, with a raised sill and moulded architrave, and a pair of sashes without glazing bars to the right, with similar architraves and a continuous moulded sill. The 1st floor has a 4-pane sash in the centre with a pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice, and segmental-headed sashes each side, with shouldered architraves and triple keystones. The roof has 3 semi-circular attic dormers. The 3-window left return wall has a wide canted bay window to the front room, with segmental-headed sashes, a segmental-headed sash above this, a blocked 1-light window on each floor of the centre, and towards the rear a raised bay which has a round-headed doorway at ground floor and a round-headed window above, both blocked. The rear, with a doorway and a window partly covered by a C20 link near the east corner, has 3 other windows at ground floor and 4 four 4-pane sashes above, all these windows with moulded architraves. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ3219499371