Description

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3289 TAYLOR STREET
789-1/9/148 (West side)
10/10/80 Ventilation Station of the Mersey
Road Tunnel

II

Ventilation Station of the Mersey Road Tunnel. 1925-34. By Sir
Basil Mott and J.A.Brodie, engineers, and Herbert J.Rowse,
architect. Brick faced steel framed construction. Tower
comprised of a series of grouped geometric blocks, largely
blind but with small doorway in eastern elevation, and double
doors in northern elevation. Doors themselves original
features, with bands of chevron and scallop decoration.
Architraves formed from rippled coursing of brick, with wing
motifs in centre. Some ornamentation in the brickwork, with
diamond frieze at base and giant cross motif in the largest of
the blocks. Chevron bands of brickwork mark the tops of the
towers, and the largest block is marked by a frieze of
recessed panels or slits. Built to house fans as part of the
ventilation system for the road tunnel.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3226189285

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26678874

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)