40, Clifton Road
40, Clifton Road, Birkenhead
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217922
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 40, Clifton Road
- Statutory Address:
- 40, Clifton Road, Birkenhead
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217922
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- 40, Clifton Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, Clifton Road, Birkenhead
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:
- 40, Clifton Road, Birkenhead
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 31931 88211
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 July 2023 to amend date of construction and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ3188
789-1/11/56
BIRKENHEAD
CLIFTON ROAD (West side)
No.40
(Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON ROAD (West side) Nos.38 AND 40)
28/03/74
II
House, formerly one of a pair, the other now demolished. c1840. By Walter Scott. Ashlar-faced, rusticated to ground floor, with Welsh slate roof. Two storeys, classical style of two principal rooms, double-depth plan and side entrance. Street front: outer (left-hand) block advanced with twelve-pane sash window with margin lights flanked by round-arched niches set in segmental bay to ground floor, sixteen-pane sash window with fanlight and recessed stone panel over to first floor, flanked by pilasters. Cornice and blocking course above. Inner (right-hand) bay to main street front has tripartite sash window to ground floor, and twelve-pane sash window in round-arched architrave with entablature and cast-iron balcony above. Cornice and blocking course. Entrance elevation of three bays divided by six pilasters. Central doorway with architrave and stressed entablature carrying a carved lion. Flanking sash windows with stressed voussoirs and three upper twelve-pane sash windows, all with margin lights. Balustraded parapet with raised central blocking. The house forms part of the original development of Clifton Park, laid out by Scott as a villa estate.
Listing NGR: SJ3193188211
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389167
- 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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