47 49, CLIFTON ROAD
47 49, CLIFTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217924
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 47 49, CLIFTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 47 49, CLIFTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217924
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 47 49, CLIFTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 47 49, CLIFTON 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:
- 47 49, CLIFTON 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 31927 88095
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3188 CLIFTON ROAD 789-1/11/58 (East side) 28/03/74 Nos.47 AND 49
GV II
Pair of houses, now in institutional use. c1843. Walter Scott. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys over basement taking account of sloping site. North elevation of 5 bays. 6-pane sash windows with margin lights to first floor and projecting fretted stone-work balcony carried on square columns which form divisions for 2-tripartite sash bay windows at ground floor level. Cast-iron acanthus decoration to ground floor balcony. Secondary door in plain architrave in side elevation. Heavy overhang to roof carried on moulded wood brackets. Main entrance in centre of 3 bay upper elevation. Doric porch with paired shafts and balustraded parapet flanked by segmentally arched tripartite sashes with ornate cast-iron colonettes, stressed quoins and voussoirs. End wall stacks. Clifton Park was laid out as a planned villa estate.
Listing NGR: SJ3192788095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389169
- 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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