Clover Almshouses
CLOVER ALMSHOUSES, BIDSTON VILLAGE ROAD, BIDSTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201550
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Clover Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- CLOVER ALMSHOUSES, BIDSTON VILLAGE ROAD, BIDSTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201550
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Clover Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOVER ALMSHOUSES, BIDSTON VILLAGE ROAD, BIDSTON
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CLOVER ALMSHOUSES, BIDSTON VILLAGE ROAD, BIDSTON
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 28272 90279
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/07/2014
SJ2890
789-1/6/173
BIRKENHEAD, Bidston
BIDSTON VILLAGE ROAD (East side),
Clover Almshouses
(Formerly listed as Glover Almshouses, HOYLAKE ROAD)
28/03/74
GV II
Pair of almshouses. Dated 1901. By Woolfall and Eccles.
Coursed and squared stonework with stone flagged half hipped
roof. Single-storeyed, each a double-pile 2-unit plan with
outer doorway in slight recess. Late C20 doors but original
moulded architraves. 3-light mullioned window in blind arched
recess, then advanced central bay with segmental gable. Paired
3-light mullioned windows divided by pilaster, and with
continuous stepped hoodmould over. Short pilaster carries
low-relief coat of arms in niche above. End wall and axial
stacks with diagonal flues. Inscription in central gable
records "Erected to the Memory of George Robert Clover by
Emily Clover his widow A.D. 1901".
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire:
Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ2827290279
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389235
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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