Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/09/2015

SJ39NW
778-1/3/52

CROSBY,
LIVERPOOL ROAD (East side),
No. 137

(Formerly listed as Sacred Heart High School (former annex))

GV II

Villa, later annex to school but unoccupied at time of survey
and subject to vandalism (openings boarded in July 1995).
Probably mid C19; altered. Cream-painted roughcast render with
sandstone dressings painted white, hipped slate roof.
Classical style. Double-depth double-fronted plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 windows, almost symmetrical, with a
moulded plinth, rusticated quoins, moulded 1st-floor sillband,
string-course over 1st floor and moulded gutter cornice. The
ground floor has a large rectangular porch with Tuscan
pilasters distyle-in-antis, a plain frieze and moulded cornice
with a blocking course, a round-headed doorway with imposts
and keystone, a panelled door with plain overlight, and a
round-headed window in the side, with a keyed architrave; a
4-pane sash to the left, with a raised sill and moulded
architrave, and a pair of sashes without glazing bars to the
right, with similar architraves and a continuous moulded sill.
The 1st floor has a 4-pane sash in the centre with a
pulvinated frieze and moulded cornice, and segmental-headed
sashes each side, with shouldered architraves and triple
keystones. The roof has 3 semi-circular attic dormers. The
3-window left return wall has a wide canted bay window to the
front room, with segmental-headed sashes, a segmental-headed
sash above this, a blocked 1-light window on each floor of the
centre, and towards the rear a raised bay which has a
round-headed doorway at ground floor and a round-headed window
above, both blocked.
The rear, with a doorway and a window partly covered by a C20
link near the east corner, has 3 other windows at ground floor
and 4 four 4-pane sashes above, all these windows with moulded
architraves.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ3219499371

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548876

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)