42, CLIFTON ROAD
42, CLIFTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201606
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 42, CLIFTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 42, CLIFTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201606
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 42, CLIFTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, CLIFTON ROAD
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:
- 42, CLIFTON ROAD
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 31919 88193
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3188 CLIFTON ROAD 789-1/11/57 (West side) 28/03/74 No.42
II
House. c1840-50. By Walter Scott. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. Single-storeyed, but full basement storey to rear of sloping site, asymmetrically planned in gothic style. Elevation to Hollybank Road has advanced gabled wing to the left with traceried Perpendicular style window with ogival hoodmould, and quatrefoil lancet on inner face. Quatrefoil panels in gable bargeboards. Stressed gable over doorway to right: paired panelled arched doors up steps with octagonal piers and fretted stone parapet. Elevation to Clifton Street has gable to left with shallow canted bay window with trefoiled lancets and hipped roof. Axial and side wall stacks, enriched with reeded flues, barley sugar swags and heavy octagonal caps. The house forms part of the original development of Clifton Park, laid out by Scott as a villa estate.
Listing NGR: SJ3191988193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389168
- 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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