40 AND 42, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
40 AND 42, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201568
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 40 AND 42, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 40 AND 42, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201568
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 40 AND 42, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40 AND 42, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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:
- 40 AND 42, DEVONSHIRE PLACE
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 30349 88347
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3088 DEVONSHIRE PLACE, Claughton 789-1/10/189 (North side) Nos.40 AND 42
II
Pair of houses. c1850. Probably by Charles Reed. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-room double-depth plan with side entrances. 2 storeys. Symmetrical, 4 bays. Outer full-height canted bays with sash windows and remnants of cast iron balcony at first floor. Entablature over, carrying cartouche. Inner bay has full-height pedimented gable articulated by pilasters and with tripartite window to ground floor, 12-pane sash above with cast iron balcony. Renewed doorways in side elevation. Overhanging eaves. Forms part of the original development of Claughton, laid out by Charles Reed for Sir William Jackson and begun c1844.
Listing NGR: SJ3034988347
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389175
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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