1-11, Cross Street and 128, Chester Street

1-11, Cross Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5EP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217942
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 1-11, Cross Street and 128, Chester Street
Statutory Address:: 1-11, Cross Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5EP

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Date:: 2005-08-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217942
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 1-11, Cross Street and 128, Chester Street
Statutory Address 1:: 1-11, Cross Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5EP
Statutory Address 2:: 128, Chester Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5DL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: 1-11, Cross Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5EP
Statutory Address:: 128, Chester Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5DL

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 32633 88763

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 April 2023 to update name and address and reformat text to current standards.

SJ3288NE 789-1/14/62

BIRKENHEAD CROSS STREET Nos. 1-11 and 128 Chester Street

(formerly listed as Nos.1-11 Cross Street, previously listed as Nos. 5-15 (Odd)) 28/03/74

GV II

Terrace of six shops. c.1847. Probably by Walter Scott. Ashlar-faced, with Welsh slate roofs. Three storeys and attic. Eighteen-window range, arranged 4-5-7-2. The five-window range is stressed with angle quoins, and with higher attic storey with interlace frieze and modillion eaves cornice. End block to right forms curved angle with Chester Street, and has higher first floor windows with tripartite sashes with enriched stone tympana, modillion eaves cornice and higher attic storey.

Shop fronts to ground floor largely early C20, though shallow canted bay windows with doors each side in Nos. 3 and 5 may be earlier. Central segmentally-arched entrance through to rear. First floor windows all have entablatures carried on brackets, and second floor windows are in stressed architraves. All are twelve-pane sashes. Moulded cornice, then attic storey with six-pane sash windows.

Forms a continuous development with Nos 90-126 Chester Street (q.v.), part of the Market Cross development built by Scott as a shopping centre.

Listing NGR: SJ3263388763

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Legacy System number:: 389173
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.