Highgate House
Highgate House, 8 Ashville Road, CH43 8SA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210045
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Highgate House
- Statutory Address:
- Highgate House, 8 Ashville Road, CH43 8SA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210045
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Highgate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Highgate House, 8 Ashville Road, CH43 8SA
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:
- Highgate House, 8 Ashville Road, CH43 8SA
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 30482 89040
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 April 2023 to amend the name and address, correct typos in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ3089
789-1/7/8
BIRKENHEAD
ASHVILLE ROAD (North West side)
No.8 (Highgate House)
(Formerly Listed as: No.8 previously listed as ASHVILLE ROAD (West side) No.8 (incorporating No.6))
28/03/74
GV
II
House. Dated 1847. Probably by Walter Scott. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Picturesque asymmetrical Tudor style. Two storeys and attic, four principal bays. Main block comprises central entrance hall and stairway, with principal rooms in expressed gabled bays to each side, and a further bay to the right. Gabled porch and three-light mullioned window to hallway, the staircase expressed via a series of stepped small two-light windows beyond. Quatrefoil panels to paired doors and fanlight with rustic decoration. Hinde family arms over doorway. Full-height projecting square bay window to left of doorway with tall mullioned windows with foiled or segmental lights on each floor. Wide coped gable over attic window above, balancing right-hand gable stressed by angle quoins and with three-light mullioned window on principal floors. Additional bay to right, with trefoiled mullioned window to ground floor. Parapet eaves throughout. Gable and axial stacks.
The house forms part of the original development of Birkenhead Park, laid out by Joseph Paxton between 1844 and 1847.
Listing NGR: SJ3048289040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389105
- 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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