Williamson Art Gallery And Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. Art gallery, museum. 6 related planning applications.

Williamson Art Gallery And Museum

WRENN ID
empty-frieze-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Country
England
Date first listed
10 August 1992
Type
Art gallery, museum
Source
Historic England listing

Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3088 SLATEY ROAD, Claughton 789-1/10/206 (East side) Williamson Art Gallery and Museum

GV II

Art gallery and museum. 1928. By Leonard Hannaford and Herbert Thearle. Brick with stone dressings, part-glazed low pitched roof. Single-storeyed, built around 2 internal courtyards. Neo-Georgian style. Entrance front to Slatey Road with advanced entrance towards centre: paired Corinthian columns flank double doors in stone architrave, "Williamson Art Gallery and Museum" inscribed in the cornice above. Flanking bays marked by large brick-work panels with rusticated brick frieze below stone cornice, and brick quoins at angles. Paired Corinthian pilasters each side of recessed round arched window towards the right. Centre of elevation to Ball's Road slightly advanced and marked by 6 Corinthian pilasters under cornice with paterae. Between the pilasters, expressed round arched blind niches, 2 with abstract reliefs. Stone plinth and cornice throughout. The building is almost entirely windowless, relying on top-lighting into the galleries which are arranged on the corridor principal.

Listing NGR: SJ3092988041

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