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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26494876

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)