Former Police Booth and Gate Piers at Woodside Lairage Entrance to Birkenhead Docks
FORMER POLICE BOOTH AND GATE PIERS AT WOODSIDE LAIRAGE ENTRANCE TO BIRKENHEAD DOCKS, HAMILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201584
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Police Booth and Gate Piers at Woodside Lairage Entrance to Birkenhead Docks
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER POLICE BOOTH AND GATE PIERS AT WOODSIDE LAIRAGE ENTRANCE TO BIRKENHEAD DOCKS, HAMILTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201584
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Police Booth and Gate Piers at Woodside Lairage Entrance to Birkenhead Docks
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER POLICE BOOTH AND GATE PIERS AT WOODSIDE LAIRAGE ENTRANCE TO BIRKENHEAD DOCKS, HAMILTON STREET
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:
- FORMER POLICE BOOTH AND GATE PIERS AT WOODSIDE LAIRAGE ENTRANCE TO BIRKENHEAD DOCKS, HAMILTON STREET
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 32808 89214
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3289 HAMILTON STREET 789-1/9/86 Fmr. Police Booth & Gate Piers at 09/01/90 Woodside Lairage entrance to Birkenhead Docks
II
Former police booth and gate piers at entrance to Woodside lairage. Date on police booth 1868. Booth is rusticated sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Single-storeyed, single cell structure, with polygonal ends. Rear entrance. Single-light windows divided by attached shafts to outer elevation. Heavy plinth and cornice and parapet. Side wall stack. Gate piers also rusticated ashlar with heavy plinth and cornice. The booth was built to control principal road and pedestrian access to the dock, as part of the work undertaken by G.F. Lyster, engineer.
Listing NGR: SJ3280889214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389224
- 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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