Numbers 1 to 18 (Consecutive) Including Railings to Front
NUMBERS 1 TO 18 (CONSECUTIVE) INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT, 1-18, HAMILTON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1201580
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 18 (Consecutive) Including Railings to Front
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 18 (CONSECUTIVE) INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT, 1-18, HAMILTON SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1201580
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 18 (Consecutive) Including Railings to Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 18 (CONSECUTIVE) INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT, 1-18, HAMILTON SQUARE
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:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 18 (CONSECUTIVE) INCLUDING RAILINGS TO FRONT, 1-18, HAMILTON SQUARE
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 32587 89088
Details
SJ 3289,
789-1/9/71
BIRKENHEAD,
HAMILTON SQUARE (North-East side),
Nos.1-18 (Consecutive) including railings to front
29/07/50
GV
I
Terrace of eighteen houses now in commercial use forming NE range of
square. c1825. By James Gillespie Graham. Ashlar-faced over
brick with Welsh slate roof. 3-storeyed with attic and
basement. Each unit a 3-window range with wide entrance hall
and single-room width to ground floor, double-depth plan, the
staircase between the two rooms. Terrace symmetrically planned
with projecting outer pavilions and stepped projecting central
section of four bays. Rusticated basement storey throughout. End
pavilions emphasised by round-arched windows to ground floor,
and doors in porches with Doric shafts and giant Doric order
of attached columns with entablatures. Stressed architraves to
doorways of long inner ranges, engaged shafts in central
sections. 12-pane sash windows (some renewed), with
entablatures to first floor in outer and central bays, and
cast-iron acanthus motif balconies. Cornice and attic storey
with secondary cornice and blocking course over. Large axial
stacks. Spear head railings to basement area, and sphinx boot
scrapers. Staircases and other contemporary features survive
in several of the houses.
The terrace comprises part of the
Hamilton Square development, an important example of formal
planning instigated by John Laird in 1825.
Listing NGR: SJ3258789088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389207
- 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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