3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street
3-9, Market Street, Birkenhead
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201556
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street
- Statutory Address:
- 3-9, Market Street, Birkenhead
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201556
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 3-9, Market Street and 90 and 92, Chester Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3-9, Market Street, Birkenhead
- Statutory Address 2:
- 90 and 92, Chester Street, Birkenhead
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:
- 3-9, Market Street, Birkenhead
- Statutory Address:
- 90 and 92, Chester Street, Birkenhead
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 32660 88778
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 April 2023 to reformat text to current standards.
SJ3288NE
789-1/14/99
BIRKENHEAD,
MARKET STREET (South side),
Nos. 3-9 (Odd)
28/03/74
GV
II
Includes: Nos. 90 AND 92 CHESTER STREET.
Group of four shops at time of listing, incorporating the former Albion Hotel. c.1837. Albion Hotel by Edward Welch. Ashlar-faced with roof now missing but formerly Welsh slate. Three storeys, five-window range, unequally spaced. Three early C20 shop fronts with pilasters each side and beaded moulding over fascia, but parts of fascia missing. Upper window spaces now all missing cases, but probably formerly twelve-pane sashes. Moulded cornice. Pedimented return to Chester Street, a three-window range with stressed architraves, and the stone brackets for a balcony now missing. Central door and flanking windows in rusticated basement storey now largely blocked - only the stressed voussoirs are visible. Late C19 shop front with canted bay to left.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3266088778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389247
- 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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