Numbers 59 and 61 With Gatepiers to Garden
NUMBERS 59 AND 61 WITH GATEPIERS TO GARDEN, 59 61, ASHVILLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201627
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 59 and 61 With Gatepiers to Garden
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 59 AND 61 WITH GATEPIERS TO GARDEN, 59 61, ASHVILLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201627
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 59 and 61 With Gatepiers to Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 59 AND 61 WITH GATEPIERS TO GARDEN, 59 61, ASHVILLE ROAD
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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 59 AND 61 WITH GATEPIERS TO GARDEN, 59 61, ASHVILLE 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 30495 88971
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3088 ASHVILLE ROAD 789-1/10/16 (South East side) 28/03/74 Nos.59 AND 61 with gatepiers to garden
GV II
Pair of houses. c1840-50. Possibly by Walter Scott. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof. Picturesque assymetrical French Renaissance style. 2-storeyed with attics, each dwelling differently planned and oriented. Right-hand unit faces the park, with advanced gabled wing to right of narrow full-height gabled porch. Elevation to street has advanced gable to the right, with 2-light window on each floor. Lower window has stressed voussoirs and keystone, upper window a broken pediment. To the left of this, the 2 storeys are raised over a basement, and each floor has 3 narrow round-arched windows, linked on the first floor by a continuous string course. Left-hand unit has more compact plan, with central entrance hall and main bay in advanced Dutch gable to right. Flat roofed porch runs across left-hand sections, with blocked round headed window and segmentally-arched doorway with paired panelled doors. Octagonal turret over door perhaps houses staircase. 2-light windows with flat arched heads with stressed voussoirs in right-hand gable, and above to left, with small Dutch gable over. End wall stacks. Paired panelled gate piers with shallow pyramidal copings to each house. The houses form part of the original development of Birkenhead Park, laid out by Joseph Paxton in 1844-47.
Listing NGR: SJ3049588971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389113
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 28 Merseyside,
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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