10 Clifton Road and 72 The Woodlands
10, Clifton Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201603
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 10 Clifton Road and 72 The Woodlands
- Statutory Address:
- 10, Clifton Road
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- Date:
- 2002-08-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/07130/35
- Rights:
- © Dr Geoffrey Court. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201603
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 10 Clifton Road and 72 The Woodlands
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10, Clifton Road
- Statutory Address 2:
- 72, The Woodlands
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:
- 10, Clifton Road
- Statutory Address:
- 72, The Woodlands
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 32032 88406
Details
SJ 3288 SW
789-1/15/47
BIRKENHEAD
CLIFTON ROAD (west side)
No.10
28/03/74
GV
II
Includes: No. 72 THE WOODLANDS.
Pair of houses. Dated 1846. By Walter Scott. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate and concrete tiled roof. Asymmetrical grouping in picturesque gothic style.
No. 72 The Woodlands is two storeyed with main range of two units with central door, and projecting gabled block to the left. Four-centred arched doorway with stepped hood mould over flanked by mullioned windows of three and two lights on each side, with hoodmoulds over ground floor windows. Trefoiled window over door, and crow-stepped gable corbelled out above. Smaller square block to left has two-light mullioned windows with stepped hood moulds on each floor and stack on side of gable.
No. 10 Clifton Road is at right angles to this, and comprises two parallel gables: small central gable over porch with stilted arched door and hood mould, similar window over, and fretted bargeboards to gable. Wide left-hand gable has canted bay window to ground floor with round-arched mullioned lights. Single-storey castellated block to right of porch abuts rear of No. 72. To left, short length of wall has ogee-arched doorway with stepped coping over, and the date, 1846. The houses form part of the original development of Clifton Park, laid out by Scott as a villa estate.
Listing NGR: SJ3203288406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389158
- 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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