The Gables
THE GABLES, 12, SLATEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201735
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLES, 12, SLATEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201735
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GABLES, 12, SLATEY 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:
- THE GABLES, 12, SLATEY 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 30774 88430
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3088 SLATEY ROAD, Claughton 789-1/10/204 (West side) 28/03/74 No.12 The Gables
GV II
House. 1865. By Walter Scott for himself. Red brick with blue and yellow brick dressings, and Welsh Slate roof with bands of dog-tooth coursing. Gothic style. 3 storeys, 2-bay elevation to Slatey Road with entrance to left and advanced gable to right. Paired part-glazed panelled doors up steps in porch with parapet and yellow and blue brick voussoirs to segmental arch with stone kneelers and key block. Shafts with foliate capitals. 2-pane sash windows on upper floors have similar brick and stone heads. Main rooms face Grosvenor Road elevation. 3 gables, the central advanced with canted bay to ground floor, and tripartite window with pediment over central light in right hand bay. Stone bands between storeys. Upper windows are 4-pane sashes with arched brick heads with stone kneelers and keyblocks. Ornate bargeboards with fretwork and pendant carried on stone corbels to central gable. Stepped lancet stair window on rear wall with stained glass panels. End wall stacks. Entrance gate in brick wall with stepped stone copings, and ogee arch with Scott's monogram, date and house name over.
Listing NGR: SJ3077488430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389351
- 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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