Seaforth Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1996. Commercial.

Seaforth Arms Hotel

WRENN ID
cold-joist-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sefton
Constituency
Bootle MP: Peter Dowd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1996
Type
Commercial
Address
Seaforth Arms Hotel, Seaforth Road
OS grid reference
SJ 332 970
Coordinates
53.4656, -3.00731
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Seaforth Arms Hotel is a public house, likely dating from around 1900 to 1914, and subject to some later alteration. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar at ground floor with a polished brown granite plinth, Accrington brick at first floor with red sandstone dressings, and a graduated green slate roof. The architectural style is Edwardian Baroque.

The building's plan comprises a double-depth main range parallel to the street, offset to the left by a short but wide gabled wing, and a canted porch in the angle between them. The exterior displays a boldly articulated design with channelled rustication at ground floor, a plain frieze, a prominent moulded cornice over the ground floor, a moulded first-floor sillband, a plain frieze and moulded cornice over the upper floor, a stone parapet, an open pedimental gable to the second bay, and a wrought-iron balustrade with a pilastered turret over the porch.

The porch features a round-headed doorway with a triple keystone and stained glass fanlight. Above the doorway sits a large cartouche bearing the monogram "TBCoLtd", framed by Ionic colonnettes with Gibbsian blocks and an open pediment. Pairs of similar colonnettes also frame a cross-window at first floor, with a Gibbsian architrave. The range to the left has two bowed tripartite windows at ground floor, enriched pilasters framing a large semi-circular monogrammed plaque in the first bay, a tripartite window in the second bay with Gibbsian mullions, and a carved cartouche in the pediment above. The range to the right of the porch has a doorway and a tripartite window at ground floor, and a transomed one-light window above with a Gibbsian surround. The right-hand return wall, including a broad pedimented gable and a short rear wing, is also in a similar style, notable for a large round-headed doorway at ground floor, a four-light window above, and a three-light attic window in the gable with an elaborate consoled architrave including a triple keystone. Two ridge chimneys have prominent stone cornices.

Inside, the east and north internal porches have glazed tiles in an Art Nouveau style, along with a similar glazed tile dado. A cross-corner fireplace is of white glazed tiles in a Classical style. The panelled bar features glazed screens, and some former internal partitions in the main range have been removed.

Local climate

Seaforth Arms Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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