Monumental Masons Yard, Gateway And Boundary Wall At Toxteth Park Cemetary

Heritage listing

Details SJ38NE 392/7/10121 LlVERPOOL SMITHDOWN ROAD No.120, Monumental Masons Yard, gateway and boundary wall at Toxteth Park Cemetery GV II Monumental mason's yard comprising showroom and office, workshops, boundary wall, railing and gates. The yard occupies a polygonal site at the north west corner of the cemetery, and adjoins its boundary wall on the west side. All the buildings are linked. Red brick,with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Showroom and office, single storey, polygonal, has hipped roof with gabled ventilators, cast iron cresting and finials. To left, massive external stack with shoulders and coped octagonal flue. Ashlar shopfront with plinth and coping. In the centre, a five-light cross-mullioned window with the outer lights blocked, the right one forming a door. Left return has a similar two-light window. Rear facet has a double door with ashlar surround. At the rear, a single storey range, rebuilt late C20, with lean-to concrete tile roof. Workshop, two storeys, has hipped roof and external side wall stacks,that to right shouldered and minus the flue, that to left truncated. Central double doors under stone lintel, flanked by segment headed windows, now boarded. Above, two segment headed louvre ventilators. To left, a single storey workshop range, C19, L-plan with hipped end. To right brick front with various boarded openings and tall stack. To left, five open bays on wooden posts. In the centre of the yard,a steel crane, early C20, with lattice jib. At the south end of the yard, a workshop, two storeys, with hipped roof and remains of cresting and finials. Central door to ground floor, and above, a through-eaves dormer with a small round opening. Rear elevation has a door to right under a stone lintel, flanked to left by a boarded window. Abov

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.