Numbers 5 and 6 With Gatepiers to Front Garden
NUMBERS 5 AND 6 WITH GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 5 6, ROCK PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201760
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 5 and 6 With Gatepiers to Front Garden
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 5 AND 6 WITH GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 5 6, ROCK PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201760
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 5 and 6 With Gatepiers to Front Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 5 AND 6 WITH GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 5 6, ROCK PARK
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:
- NUMBERS 5 AND 6 WITH GATEPIERS TO FRONT GARDEN, 5 6, ROCK PARK
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 33524 86630
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/253 (East side) 13/03/73 Nos.5 AND 6 with gatepiers to front garden
GV II
Pair of houses. c1836. Coursed and squared rubble with Welsh slate roof. Picturesque gothick style, asymmetrically-planned. On street side, No.5 forms a single-storey, with 2 ranges with semi-circular bay carried on corbels in their angle. Gabled porch with 4-centred arch over plank door and earlier C20 gabled extension to right. 2 storeys to elevation facing Esplanade, symmetrically-planned of 3 bays with central narrow advanced gable over hallway. Paired part glazed doors in 4-centred arch way with hood mould over. Large canted bay window to left, the other windows all renewed in original openings with hood moulds. Corbelled eaves course. Coped gables and gable end stacks. No.6 comprises 2 parallel ranges with central entrance to street front in coped gabled porch with projecting stack to right and small mullioned windows to left. 3 gabled dormers above. Exaggerated kneelers to all gables. 3-storeyed 3-bay elevation to Esplanade with central advanced narrow gable stressed by octagonal pilasters. Paired part-glazed doors in 4-centred arch with hood mould over. 2-storey canted bay window to left with newer bay added in upper storey. 2-light mullioned windows in right hand bay with renewed oriel window to first floor. Paired octagonal gate piers to street elevation with stepped pyramidal caps. The houses form part of the original Rock Park development laid out by J. Bennison in 1836. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).
Listing NGR: SJ3352486630
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389313
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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