Number 19 With Gatepiers to Street

NUMBER 19 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET, 19, ROCK PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201762
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:
Number 19 With Gatepiers to Street
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 19 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET, 19, ROCK PARK

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201762
Date first listed:
13-Mar-1973
List Entry Name:
Number 19 With Gatepiers to Street
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 19 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET, 19, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 19 WITH GATEPIERS TO STREET, 19, 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 33689 86383

Details

BIRKENHEAD

SJ3386 ROCK PARK, Rock Ferry 789-1/12/261 (East side) 13/03/73 No.19 with gatepiers to street

GV II

House. c1836. Ashlar rusticated to ground floor with Welsh slate roof. Neo-classical style, 2 storeys, 3-window range double-pile plan with central entrance. Door with overlight and pedimented canopy carried on brackets flanked by 12-pane sash windows to left, and full-height bow with tripartite sashes with moulded architraves and entablatures to right. Moulded cornice and parapet. End wall stacks. Lower 2-storeyed 4-window service range recessed to left, and extended later C19 or early C20. Square gate piers with recessed panels and shallow pyramidal caps. The house forms part of the original development of Rock Park, laid out in 1836 by J.Bennison. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-).

Listing NGR: SJ3368986383

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
389321
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.

Ordnance survey map of Number 19 With Gatepiers to Street

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