NUMBERS 3 AND 4 WITH GATE PIERS AND WALLING TO FRONT GARDEN

NUMBERS 3 AND 4 WITH GATE PIERS AND WALLING TO FRONT GARDEN, 3 4, ROCK PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218780
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 3 AND 4 WITH GATE PIERS AND WALLING TO FRONT GARDEN
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 3 AND 4 WITH GATE PIERS AND WALLING TO FRONT GARDEN, 3 4, ROCK PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218780
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 3 AND 4 WITH GATE PIERS AND WALLING TO FRONT GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 3 AND 4 WITH GATE PIERS AND WALLING TO FRONT GARDEN, 3 4, ROCK PARK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 3 AND 4 WITH GATE PIERS AND WALLING TO FRONT GARDEN, 3 4, ROCK PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 33500 86650

Details

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SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/252 (East side) 13/03/73 Nos.3 AND 4 with gatepiers and walling to front garden

GV II

Pair of houses. c1836. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys with attic and basement. Symmetrically-designed double-pile plan, each a 3-window range with outer gabled wings. Side entrances in projecting porches, raised and extended over the original single-storey to No.3 but incorporating the original architrave and parapet which survives intact in No.4. 12-pane sash windows to No.4, renewed with 2-pane sashes in No.3. Plain architraves in advanced gabled wings, with entablatures to lower windows. Wood bargeboards to gables. Inserted dormer window cuts eaves in No.3. Axial stacks. Elevation to Esplanade has similar configuration, with 12-pane sash windows throughout, in 2-storey canted bays with cast-iron balconies in gabled wings. Original bay survives intact to No.4, extended with larger early C20 window to No.3. Paired gate piers to street: cylindrical shafts with fluted caps (one now missing). The houses form part of the original Rock Park development laid out in 1836 by J. Bennison. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3350086650

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 389312
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.