Royden House including gatepiers and railings
83, Park Road North, Birkenhead
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201564
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Royden House including gatepiers and railings
- Statutory Address:
- 83, Park Road North, Birkenhead
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201564
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Royden House including gatepiers and railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 83, Park Road North, 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:
- 83, Park Road North, 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 31134 89232
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 April 2023 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ3189
789-1/7/119
BIRKENHEAD,
PARK ROAD NORTH (South West side),
Royden House including gatepiers and railings (no. 83)
(Formerly listed as Roden House including gatepiers and railings)
28/03/74
GV
II
Pair of houses, now subdivided as flats. c1843-7. Ashlar faced with hipped Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. Three storeys and basement, square in plan with central entrance. Eight-window range to entrance front, with advanced central bay. Arcaded porch raised up steps and divided by pilasters into three bays. Balustraded parapet. Pedimented tripartite window over door, the central window space blind. Three round-arched sash windows each side of central bay to ground floor, and 12-pane sashes with entablatures carried on brackets to first floor. Low nine-pane sash windows to attic storey, in stressed architraves.
Four-window range to garden front with slightly advanced central bay. Channelled ashlar to ground floor, with tripartite windows in outer bays, and paired round headed sash windows to centre, all with stressed voussoirs. Forms part of the original development of Birkenhead Park.
Listing NGR: SJ3113489232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 28 Merseyside,
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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