Education Department and front wall is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. Office, library, museum.
Education Department and front wall
- WRENN ID
- hushed-paling-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- Office, library, museum
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/10/2015
SJ 39 SW 11/19
BOOTLE ORIEL ROAD (east side), Education Department and front wall
GV II Library and museum, now offices. 1886. By J. Johnson. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Two storeys, five bays. Faceted plinth and top panelled frieze, cornice and parapet with finials; flat pilasters to ends and flanking first bay. Ground floor windows are paired, with round tympana with roundels and foliage, archivolts and imposts. First bay entrance is round headed with key, consoled entablature with panel above inscribed "FREE LIBRARY/AND/MUSEUM" and date in segmental pediment. First floor first bay round-headed window has open pediment, other bays have rectangular panels. Parapet over first bay has roundel with arms supporting two seated figures; pavilion roof.
Low front wall with granite bollards supporting lamp standards with C20 lamps and cast iron bollards in form of light houses supporting chains.
Listing NGR: SJ3406494747
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