Description

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TQ 3382
8/70

BOUNDARY ESTATE
ARNOLD CIRCUS E2
Shiplake House

GV
II
1899. Red brick, glazed ground floor. Upper storeys banded with orange brickwork, bands increase in width towards top of building. Slate roof. String courses above ground and third floor windows. Four storeys and two extra storeys in central gable. Three bays width, outer windows form canted bays between first and third floors with stucco dressings to base. Central window with stucco keystones. Paired ground floor sashes with segmental arches flank central round arched door with chequered tympanum and short pilasters between door and narrow flanking windows. Windows of top two floors in central bay have stuccoed tympana and keystones and are flanked by banded brick pilasters. Contemporary sashes with glazing bars. Facade to Calvert Avenue twelve windows, three gables. Ground floor has contemporary shop fronts set under a common cornice.

The Boundary Estate is an early LCC estate of advanced design for its period. It contains a variety of architectural details and its streets radiate from a central raised park in Arnold Circus. The entire estate forms a group. See the following streets; Arnold Circus E2, Boundary Street E2, Calvert Avenue E2, Camlet Street E2, Club Row E2, Hocker Street E2, Ligonier Street E2, Montclare Street E2, Naverre Street E2, Old Nichol Street E2, Palissy Street E2, Rochelle Street E2, Swanfield Street E2 and Virginia Street E2.

Listing NGR: TQ3359682543

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26318403

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)