NUMBERS 58 TO 63 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, FLANKING WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NORTH-EAST

NUMBERS 58 TO 63 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, FLANKING WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NORTH-EAST, 58-63, HAMILTON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1218048
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 58 TO 63 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, FLANKING WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NORTH-EAST
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 58 TO 63 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, FLANKING WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NORTH-EAST, 58-63, HAMILTON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1218048
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 58 TO 63 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, FLANKING WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NORTH-EAST
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 58 TO 63 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, FLANKING WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NORTH-EAST, 58-63, HAMILTON SQUARE

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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 58 TO 63 (CONSECUTIVE) WITH RAILINGS TO FRONT, FLANKING WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NORTH-EAST, 58-63, HAMILTON SQUARE

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:: SJ3265089020

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/07/2017

SJ3289, 789-1/9/75

BIRKENHEAD, HAMILTON SQUARE (east side), Nos. 58-63 (consecutive) with railings to front, flanking wall and gate piers to north-east

(Formerly listed as: Nos. 58-63 (consecutive) with railings to front, flanking wall and gatepiers to east)

29/07/50

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Terrace of six dwellings, now in use as offices. c1825. By James Gillespie Graham. Ashlar-faced with Welsh slate roof with axial stacks. Three storeys with basement and attic. 18-window range arranged 3-12-3 with the outer bays marked by full height pilasters over first and second storeys, and with an additional attic storey over the cornice. Each unit has round-arched windows to rusticated ground floor, Doric pilasters to doorcases of the outer bays, Doric porches in the central range. Upper windows are 12-pane sashes with moulded architraves in the central range. Attic lit by dormer windows in central range. Moulded cornice and blocking course over. Return elevation to Mortimer Street of three bays with doorway to right in Doric porch. Cast-iron spear head railings to basement area, and cast-iron sphinx-like foot scrapers. Flanking wall and gate piers adjoin to the north-east. Staircases and other contemporary features survive in several of the houses. This terrace comprises part of the Hamilton Square development, an important example of formal planning instigated by John Laird in 1825.

Listing NGR: SJ3265089020

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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.